2.The company        (志愿) donate fifty trucks to help the

rebuilding of disaster areas.

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 Language experts say that spoken English was almost the same in the American colonies and Britain. Americans began to change the sound of their speech after the Revolutionary War in 1776.They wanted to separate them?selves from the British in language as they had separated themselves from the British government. Webster published The American Dictionary of the Eng?lish Language in 1828. It established rules for speaking and spelling the words used in American English.

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   C.The reasons why American English was formed and its development.

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