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  2. American and British English grammatical differences

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    In both British and American English, a person can make a decision; however, only in British English is the common variant take a decision also an option in a formal, serious, or official context. The British often describe a person as tanned, where Americans would use tan. For instance, "she was tanned", rather than "she was tan".

  3. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language.This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts.. This article describes a generalized, present-day Standard English – a form of speech and writing used in public discourse, including broadcasting, education, entertainment, government, and news, over a range of registers, from formal to ...

  4. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ( CamGEL [n 1]) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and has been cited more than 8,000 times.

  5. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    English grammar. Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are not heavily inflected. Most combinations of tense, aspect, mood and voice are expressed periphrastically, using constructions with auxiliary verbs .

  6. Longest English sentence - Wikipedia

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    William Faulkner 's Absalom, Absalom! (1936) contains a sentence composed of 1,288 words (in the 1951 Random House version) [6] Jonathan Coe 's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words [6] It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal 's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel written in one long sentence.

  7. History of English grammars - Wikipedia

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    The history of English grammars [1] [2] begins late in the sixteenth century with the Pamphlet for Grammar by William Bullokar. In the early works, the structure and rules of English grammar were based on those of Latin. A more modern approach, incorporating phonology, was introduced in the nineteenth century.

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