In Dialects^x, Clauses^x, Tenses^x

Oh my I m so surprised I would never have thought you said it yourself By the way you said If I d have known and not If I d known which can t mean If I would have known because you would be leaving out a syllable Anyway I ll tell you the truth I ve always thought it was non standard same register...

MrPedantic wrote What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often self prescriptivise Example Oh hello MrP MissQ was just telling Randy and me Randy and I about L1 acquisition MrP I read your question wrong oops Um I think that does not resemble self prescriptivism at all at...

Often times is a kind of American dialect So I don t know about its grammatical usage But if it is equivalent to often it will come at the position between have and been As for once I became a doctor you are right It should be once I become a doctor This time adverbial clause modifies find so...

Your toes look pretty sharp and nimble to me Paco I think doubt often does arise for native speakers when they re using this structure in written English I ve had conversations like the one above on a number of occasions when someone has suddenly doubted their own intuition while writing a...