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Eternidades, 1918
En el otro costado (1936-42)
Venus, soneto del 1890
Prosas Profanas 1896
Sonatina
Cantos de vida y esperanza
What particularity in pronunciation have you spotted?
Think of the sounds /o/ and /ae/, pronunciation of letter 'T', unaccented syllables, etc.
Example: sound /o/ is pronounced with rounded lips only in BrE.
Miscellaneous grammatical differences
Type in any other miscellaneous particularities of the two language versions.
Example: when naming rivers in AmE, the word 'river' comes after the name: 'Upper Delaware River'. In BrE, 'river' always comes in front of the name: 'River Thames'.
Preposition differences
Type in the particularities regarding the use of prepositions in Standard British English (BrE).
Example: British sportsmen play in a team.
Preposition differences
Type in the particularities regarding the use of prepositions in American English (AmE).
Example: American athletes play on a team.
Verb differences
What are the particularities regarding the use of verbs in Standard British English (BrE)? Type them in. Take into account the use of tenses, verb morphology, auxiliaries, transitivity, etc.
Example: BrE uses present perfect along with the words 'already', 'just' and 'yet' to talk about an event in the recent past: We have just arrived home.
Verb differences
What are the particularities regarding the use of verbs in American English (AmE)? Type them in. Take into account the use of tenses, verb morphology, auxiliaries, transitivity, etc.
Example: AmE occasionally uses simple past instead of past perfect to talk about an event in the recent past: I just arrived from work.
Type in some of these situations.
Example: for the house numbers or bus numbers (or any short numbers of such), for example, 583, American speakers will say ' five eighty-three', while British people will say ' five eight three'.
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Different words with the same meaning
There are many objects that are described by different words in American and British English.
Example: 'Cookie' (AmE) and 'biscuit' (BrE) both refer to the same sweet baked food.
Type in some of these words.
