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title: British and American words — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 21 «British and American words» of the language course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# British and American words

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The 15 questions of lesson 21 «British and American words» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 90 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/21-british-and-american-words/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t1/) — Your mate goes "soccer is a dumb American word, innit, it's FOOTBALL bruv." What's true? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t2/) — Gran reckons "fall" is "lazy new American talk". What's the wise reply? — wrong ✗
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t3/) — In a cartoon, an American kid says "pavement" and points at the road itself. Could that be right? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t4/) — Your Yank cousin ("Yank" is British slang for an American) says "zed is a made-up British joke". What do you tell him? — wrong ✗
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t5/) — You're in Boston and your mate texts "meet u ground floor lol". What should you say to an American to find it? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t6/) — Your teacher in Leeds marks "color" wrong in your British essay. Is the teacher being unfair? — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t7/) — Kai's mate from Alabama says "y'all want biscuits with gravy?" ("Y'all" means you all.) What will arrive? — wrong ✗
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t8/) — What would happen if a British boy in New York asked a shop for "a rubber"? (In Britain a rubber is for rubbing out pencil.) — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t9/) — Hollie reckons Brits and Americans "basically can't understand each other, it's two languages". Is she right? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t10/) — Ella from Leeds says "Mam, can I have a biscuit?" Her friend says "Mam" is wrong. What's true? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/t11/) — Your American cousin says "I'm out of gas". You are in the car. What has run out? — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the divergence between British and American English vocabulary? — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/e2/) — Identify the origin of the term "soccer", given that it is now chiefly employed in the United States. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/e3/) — A person residing in the United States proposes a meeting "on the first floor". Ascertain the location so designated in British terms. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/21-british-and-american-words/e4/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the spellings "colour" and "color". — wrong ✗ · exam

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