Are these sentences British or American English?
Decide, by reading the whole sentence, if you have to use the British or the
American word, which is given in brackets.
- After queuing at the (
underground / subway ) station to buy a return ticket, I realised that I
had left my ( wallet / bill fold ) in my other ( pants / trousers ).
- When I got back to my
apartment, I got my bathrobe out of the ( wardrobe / closet ), turned on
the ( faucet / tap ) and got in the tub.
- The ( fridge / ice box ) was
empty, so all that I could find to eat was a few biscuits, some ( candy /
sweets ) and a bag of crisps.
- I came back from my vacation
last ( fall / autumn ) and found that the garbage men had a left a load of
( rubbish / trash ) in my front yard, so I complained to the ( janitor /
caretaker )
- My name is Anthony Davis and I
live with my family in a block of flats in the ( High /
- The mailman arrived with a
letter from the ( estate agent / real estate agency )
- There is a room in the house
which is used by a ( solicitor / attorney ) every year during the bank
holidays.
- Jimmy’s aunt sent him a
ten-dollar bill for his birthday, a ( rubber / eraser) and a box of (
thumb tacks / drawing pins )
- My nephew attends a very nice (
kindergarden / nursery school ) where they are never given any kind of
sweets.
- The smart ( civil servant /
government employee ) was waiting at the bar counter to order a lager.
KEY
- underground – wallet – trousers
- closet – faucet
- fridge – sweets
- fall – trash – janitor
- High
- real estate
- solicitor
- eraser – thumb tacks
- nursery school
- civil servant
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