American English - Grammar - Section 3.

"45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, moves to Europe."

The sentence above preposes...

• The defining element

• The defined element

"I want to speak to Mr. Gage, the manager."

The structure of the sentence above is a case of...

Preposing the defining element in an apposition is less common in...

• American English

• British English

In BE, you would never write down the sentence:

• "The founder of Valve, Gabe Newell, learns to count to three."

• "Founder of Valve, Gabe Newell, learns to count to three."

Words ending in -ache (toothache, stomachache etc.) usually do not take the indefinite article in...

• American English

• British English

• Both

The reason for that is that in BE these nouns are considered to be...

One exception of that rule is the word...

• Bellyache

• Earache

• Headache

• Stomachache

"You ... can come to my house anytime you want."

In this informal AE sentence, the following word can be used after the second-person plural (Write down only one of the two solutions):

The definite article (the) is always used before the words: university, hospital and future in:

• British English

• American English

• Both

In English, the presence or omission of the definite article can change the meaning in the case of noun phrases that indicate places eg.: university.

• True

• False