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13 Dec 2018
Question about English (US)
What is the difference between America and the US?
Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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There isn’t any significant difference. Both represent the same country.
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English (US)
@haruse Both can be used interchangeably. But there has been some debate that North America and South America can be called “America” or be called “Americans”.
Japanese
@nouchee98 Thank you! Then which is natural to use in conversation?
English (US)
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Simplified Chinese (China)
@haruse either or can be used as natural.
Usually ‘United States’ is followed after ‘the’ to make it sound natural while America is not followed after ‘the’
Usually ‘United States’ is followed after ‘the’ to make it sound natural while America is not followed after ‘the’
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Japanese
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