^Set your teacher off and tell her that if she wants to teach the way Shakespeare sounded and wrote, she needs to instruct you in English, conforming to the General North American English rules. Believe it or not, current NAmE is much closer to his than the one used in GB. Moreover, should you decide that you want to go to an American higher learning institution, British spelling will harm your scores. On the other hand though, British English tends to get simpler and simpler as well as closer to American English and good many youngsters in Britain as of today use a huge amount of the specific American vocabulary and grammar.

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