Re: to Markovic differences in British-English and American English grammar

Alan Crozier wrote: 
"ie" <I_e,johansson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The differences between British-English Grammar and American English 

Grammar

are there, no matter what most here thinks. One proof for that is that
Cambridge do have both British-English Grammar and American English


Grammar.

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/catalogue/grammarvocab/grammarinuse/

As you can see in urls below there is a call for two grammars.



http://http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/presentperfect01.html

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/short_answers04.html

http://esl.about.com/od/britishamerican/
http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa110698.htm



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences#Gramma

r

This one sees it from it's own side:
http://www.edupass.org/english/british.phtml



Your urls are irrelevant. Naturally there are different grammars for the
British and American markets, mostly because the spelling is different. The
problem with your English is not so much the difference between British and
American grammar, as the difference between English and Swedish grammar.
Your mistakes are of the kind that every Swede makes when writing English. I
know, I correct the English written by Swedes every day.

There's no reason to be ashamed about making mistakes in a foreign language.
My Swedish is heavily influenced by my native English in things like word
order and idioms.

Actually at least one or the URLs provided by ie disproves her theory about the hugh[sic] differences, and shows that she didn't read it(as usual):

"What's the difference between the US and British use of the present perfect?"

Although there are few grammatical differences between British and American English (as opposed to differences in vocabulary, which are many), this is, perhaps, the main one.

The answer is simple. Americans will often use the past simple tense where a British speaker would use the present perfect tense. An American will ask:
* Did you have dinner yet?
whereas a British person would ask:
* Have you had dinner yet?

From the corrected second one, http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/presentperfect01.html

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