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◄ American vs. British English | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | |
1) The verb "dive" is said to be regular in British English, but irregular in American English; do you find both past tense forms ("dived" and "dove") in the corpus?
2) "wet" and "wetted" are both past tense forms "wet"; are both forms found in British texts in the corpus? (Search strings "wet his" / "wetted his")
3) Search for the verb forms "smelt" and "smelled"; how many hits do you get in the corpus?
4) "Smelled" is often said to be the American spelling of the past tense form of "smell"; does the corpus support this statement?
5) Search for "gas" in the corpus, sorting the concordances by RIGHT word; in line 10 "gas" has which of the following meanings?
6) Search for "gas station"; in which variety of English is the expression most commonly found?
7) Search for "petrol" in the corpus. Sort concordances by keyword and consider the first ten lines of hits; which of the following statements is true?
8) Search for "tyre" in the corpus; in which variety of English is the expression most commonly found?
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