
British and American English Grammar Differences - AIRC477
Aprender ingles with Reza and Craig
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She Wet the Car Windscreen Before Cleaning It
Wet is different in British English and American English when we speak about the past. The second form, she wet the car windscreen before cleaning it,. That's in the past. We don't change that word. It's irregular. And we wouldn't say wetted. We would just say wet as the past tense of wet. Can you hear that my T's pronounced much in a much different way in American English? Not wet, but wet, wetted. Almost sounds like a D. She wetted the car. So Craig said she wet. And I'm saying she wetted.
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