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    This text is written in American English and contains eight British English equivalents. It describes a narrator who leaves work, sees a truck accident which has spilled beets and sneakers, and opportunistically takes some beets and a pair of sneakers. Later while getting snacks, their car is stolen with the beets still in the trunk. The narrator questions if this was a sign from God.

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    FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE

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    This text is written in American English and contains eight British English equivalents. It describes a narrator who leaves work, sees a truck accident which has spilled beets and sneakers, and opportunistically takes some beets and a pair of sneakers. Later while getting snacks, their car is stolen with the beets still in the trunk. The narrator questions if this was a sign from God.

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    Functional Language

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    Liz Zegarra
    This text is written in American English and contains eight British English equivalents. It describes a narrator who leaves work, sees a truck accident which has spilled beets and sneakers, and opportunistically takes some beets and a pair of sneakers. Later while getting snacks, their car is stolen with the beets still in the trunk. The narrator questions if this was a sign from God.

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    Exercise

    Read the text below that is written in American English. See if you can find the eight American
    English words from above. Some of these words may be repeated but just find the first
    example of each. Write the British English equivalent in the spaces below.

    Divine Justice
    What a day I had last week. I left work and took the elevator down to get my car.
    As I was driving along, I suddenly saw these two trucks that had crashed into one another.
    There was a load of beet on one side of the sidewalk, and hundreds of pairs of sneakers on
    the other. Nobody was looking, so I quickly opened my trunk and took as much beet as I could.
    I also put on a new pair of sneakers. Then I got back into my car and drove off.
    Later, I stopped to get some chips, and then went to the restroom. However, just as I got out,
    I saw that someone had stolen my car with all the beet in the trunk.
    Was God trying to tell me something?

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