Now, this is a coincidence!
This morning I was listening to an
mp3 from BBClearningenglish and here's what the speaker (teacher?) said:
I just want to finish by mentioning that there are some regional variations in non-standard grammar. I thought I’d tell you about some features of non-standard grammar from the regional accent, Geordie, where I live …
The first example I’m going to tell you about is I’ve went or She’s went or He’s went home, which is used instead of gone.
Another example is the use of the simple present instead of the simple past - I says to my husband - which uses the third person singular form of the verb. There’s also a non-standard conditional form used: If I had’ve went meaning ‘If I had gone’ to express an unfulfilled condition.
Another example is that the past tense of irregular verbs becomes inflected: I catched it; I telled him.
And finally, double negatives are common: You didn’t want it, didn’t you not?
If this dialect were more widely spoken, we'd have to re-write our grammar books ... meanwhile, let's stick with
caught and
told.
