Difference-between-British-English-and-American-En

ThedifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishAbstract：BritishEnglishandAmericanEnglisharethetwomajorvarietiesofEnglishintheworldatpresentandtherearemanydifferencesbetweenthem.ThispapertalksaboutthedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish.Thepapermainlyconsistsoffiveparts.Thefirstpartisintroduction.IwillintroducetheoriginanddevelopmentofBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish.Parttwotofouristhemainbody,whichcanbedividedintothreechapters.ThispaperistointroducethespecificdifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishinwords,grammar,andpunctuation.Thefinalpartofthearticleisconclusion.ItsummarizesthedifferencesbetweentheBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishandthentalksaboutthesignificantofthispaper.Keywords:BritishEnglish;AmericanEnglish;differences;usage;expression;pronunciation美式英语和英式英语的区别摘要：英式英语和美式英语是目前世界上英语的主要两个种类，而两者之间又有许多差别。本文主要讲述英式英语和美式英语之间的区别。本文主要由五个部分组成。第一部分是引言，主要介绍英式英语和美式英语的起源和发展。第二部分是文章的主体，介绍英式英语和美式英语在词汇，语法和标点方面的具体差异。最后一部分结论对文章进行总结，并阐释了本文的重要性。关键词：英式英语；美式英语；区别；用法；表达法；语音ContentsNumberofPages:111Introduction.................................................................................................................12TheDifferencesinWords............................................................................................2.1DifferentMeaningsandWordCounterpart..........................................................2.1.1DifferentWordswithSameMeaning..........................................................2.1.2SameWordwithDifferentMeanings.........................................................2.2Spelling.................................................................................................................2.2.1Suffix...........................................................................................................2.2.2DifferentSpellingSourcesofCertainWords..............................................2.3Pronunciation.......................................................................................................2.3.1Vowels........................................................................................................2.3.2Consonants..................................................................................................2.3.3StressandRhythm......................................................................................2.3.4DifferencesinIntonation............................................................................3TheDifferencesinGrammar.....................................................................................3.1DifferencesinVerbs............................................................................................3.1.1TheUseofTenses......................................................................................3.1.2TheUseofConjunction.............................................................................3.1.3TheUseofPreposition..............................................................................3.1.4TheUseofPronoun..................................................................................3.2DifferencesinTagQuestion................................................................................4TheDifferencesinPunctuation................................................................................4.1FullStopsandPeriodsinAbbreviations...........................................................4.2PunctuationforRestrictiveandNon-restrictiveModifiers................................4.3QuotationMarks.................................................................................................5Conclusion.................................................................................................................References.………………………………………...……….……....Pageof11ThedifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish1IntroductionTheearlyinhabitantsoftheislandwenowcallEnglandwereCelts(alsocalledBritons).In55B.C.BritainwasinvadedbytheRomanconquerorJuliusCaesar.Until410A.D.alltheromantroopsreturnedtothecontinent,thusendingtheRomanoccupationofBritain.Lateron,threetribesfromtheNorthernEuropeinvadedBritainandsettleddownontheisland:Angles,SaxonsandJutes.ThehistoryoftheEnglishLanguageisdividedintothreeperiods:Theperiodfrom450to1150isknownastheOldEnglishorAnglo-Saxonperiod.Itisdescribedastheperiodoffullinflections,sinceduringmostofthisperiodthecaseendingsofthenoun,theadjective,andtheconjugationoftheverbwerenotweakend.Theperiodfrom1150to1500isknownastheMiddleEnglishperiod.Duringthisperiodtheinflections,whichhadbeguntobreakdowntowardstheendoftheOldEnglishperiod,becamegreatlyreduced,anditisknownastheperiodofleveledinflections.Theperiodfrom1500tothepresentdayiscalledthemodernEnglishperiod.Alargepartoftheoridinalinflectionalsystemhasdisappeared,anditisknownastheperiodoflostinflections.Bythemorethan1500years’changes,theEnglishLanguagehasdevelopedfromalocallanguagespokenbyasmallnumberofpeopleinGermanictribestoitspresentpositionasaveryimportantlanguagespokenbyalargenumbersofpeopleallovertheworld.Thewidespreadof