In Dialects^x, Past perfect^x

But I found many cases using "never + simple past" in Google Book search: http://books.google.com/books?lr=&hl=zh-TW&q=%22She+never+saw+a%22 , which has 676 results using key words "She never saw a".

Plain and simple, even though it exists in many/most dialects, using "never + simple past" is not Standard English. So you are limited to "she did not see" or "she had never seen", or some derivative of either.

Julielai wrote: Just out of curiosity, Mr. P, how do you distinguish a native speaker who's learned a non-standard form of English from a decent non-native speaker? (e.g. How can you tell if a speaker born in India, Singapore or other Asian countries is native?) Hello Julie I'm not sure I...

Thank you for having pointed this out: In English, the past is often used instead of the past perfect, so there is a reading of that if clause in which was can be taken to mean had been, thus indicating the past meaning that I think you are talking about, but that creates an ambiguity, so I did...