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Peer reviewedPeters, F. J. J. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
Discusses two basic areas of difference between British and American English, namely the complementation of certain participles and the complementation of certain verbs. Complementation after "concerned" and "interested" is illustrated by several examples taken from speech and from newspaper advertisements. (AMH)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Research, Language Usage
