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Jun 16, 2008 · Jun 16, 2008. #3. When you are speaking about Americans in general, you do not use the article: "Americans are friendly". If you are speaking about a group of specific Americans, you use "the": "the Americans that we met yesterday were friendly". O.
Jan 2, 2021 · American R is the /ɹ/ consonant, not the /r/ consonant. But Americans pronounce "er" as a vowel. In American English the "er" is an "R-colored E", a single vowel sound. The IPA symbol is /ɚ/. It is not an E sound followed by an R sound. So in "rather than", you have two /ð/ consonants with an /ɚ/ in between: /raðɚðan/. R-colored vowel ...
Apr 26, 2009 · I would like to know, how you say: They are american. or They are americans. ?? I have seen in some pages that people use both but i remember that only you can put S in the case of the noun and never in the adjectives. What is the correct way to say it? Thanks a lot..
Jun 9, 2013 · Jun 9, 2013. #12. To be casual, a truck or lorry is defined as a vehicle used to carry cargo. In America, we may call any vehicle over a half-ton weight that has an cargo bed on the back, a truck. Or yes, a Pick-up truck as denoted with the drop down door/gate in back. SUV's or Sport Utility Vehicles are, in general vernacular, called "SUV's ...
Aug 3, 2012 · The names do not overlap and are not synonymous. An experienced computer user would be able to tell by looking which is which in almost all cases. (There are a few which try to be both at once - usually unsuccessfully.) A laptop is a one-piece portable computer, with batteries sufficient to run it for several hours.
Feb 9, 2014 · You will find some younger British speakers use it, under influence from the Americans. A lot of Brits use American words in casual speech, especially Scottish and Irish people because the American accent is a little 'closer' to our own accents.
Jun 16, 2017 · The quote is Lord Ismay's reaction to previous and current events. Lord Ismay was British, not American. The quote is about the situation after the war is won and Germany is occupied. keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.”. Lord Ismay knew that after World War I that the Americans withdrew into isolationism.
Mar 2, 2021 · Mar 2, 2021. #6. I would say "real quick" and "really quickly" don't have the same nuance for us. "Really quickly" is a description of what speed to do an action. "Real quick" basically means "right away". It's when to do the action, not how to do it. It also tends to be used in situations where the person will only be inconvenienced briefly.
Dec 8, 2008 · The sentence is in the third person, but that is not what determines whether you use do or does. Americans is plural, so you need the plural form do. If you have one American, the sentences will still be in the third person, but with the singular form of the verb, does. Americans do not use [something]. One American does not use [something].
May 28, 2006 · English. May 29, 2006. #45. There's a famous saying (attributed to E.B. White) which goes: To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
