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Re: if you were

Yes! If you go to Jamaica, you'll find out you should say Me like him! Although "I like him" should be ok in high or middle registers.

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Kooyeen 34 days ago Grammar Nouns Pronouns Dialects Nominative
Hisself instead of himself.

Hello I wonder why some nonstandard dialects of English use the reflexive pronouns hisself instead of himself. Thank you for your answer.

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by WANG CHUN 353 days ago Nouns Dialects Pronouns
Re: correct sentence??

From answers.com: Speakers of some vernacular American dialects, particularly in the South, may use the possessive reflexive form hisself instead of himself (as in He cut hisself shaving) and theirselves or theirself for themselves (as in They found theirselves alone). These forms reflect the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Ruslana 363 days ago Plurals Possessives Nouns Pronouns Numbers British English Dialects
Re: What do you know about the history of English?

Some of the Scandinavian languages have had an effect on the development of English. If you google 'the Danelaw' you will see that Norwegian and Danish Vikings were in control of a large area of north and east England back in the 11th Century. This led to Old Norse giving many 'loan words' to...

Cultural Anecdotes, Similarities and Differences. by nona the brit 1 yr 191 days ago Dialects History of English Nouns Plurals Pronouns
Re: what kind of comparative structure is it?

-------- as Function:pronoun 1 a : THAT, WHO, WHICH -- used to introduce an adjectival clause and having same or such as antecedent <their children should grow up in the same intellectual culture as they have enjoyed -- G.B.Jeffery> <tears such as angels weep burst forth...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Marius Hancu 2 yr 18 days ago Grammar Clauses Nouns Pronouns Dialects Accents
Re: contraction

b is correct. He isn't a good boy Here are the rules for contractions: Apostrophes with Verb Contractions Apostrophes generally show missing letters in contractions. In most formal writing such contractions should be avoided. The most common contractions involve verbs in five situations....

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Likeguslee 2 yr 54 days ago Verbs Conversations Possessives Nouns Pronouns Dialects Contractions Apostrophes

The following is from the Online Etymology Dictionary.I 12c. shortening of O.E. ic, first person sing. nom. pronoun, from P.Gmc. *ekan (cf. O.Fris. ik, O.N. ek, Norw. eg, Dan. jeg, O.H.G. ih, Ger. ich, Goth. ik), from PIE *ego(m) (cf. Skt. aham, Hitt. uk, L. ego, Gk. ego, Rus. ja). Reduced to...

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Re: Beware the grammar expert!

I have trouble figuring out why 'grammar experts' get the blame for these. There are a number of reasons why people might disagree over these usages: colloquial vs written, American vs British, PC vs non-PC, prescriptivism vs descriptivism, and even one or two examples where there are...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Anonymous 2 yr 92 days ago Nouns Verbs Grammar Dialects Numbers Spelling Pronouns American English Relative pronouns
Re: Inferior dialects?

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...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Randy_Tam 2 yr 266 days ago Nouns Verbs Tenses Regards Clauses Dialects Nominative Pronouns Inflections Accusative Morphology Inflectional morphology Translation
Re: Possessive before a gerund.

OED The gerund still retains one feature of the verbal noun, namely, that of admitting of a preceding possessive case or possessive pronoun, as in "after John's behaving so strangely", "upon my readily granting it". In the literary language this construction is regularly retained with a pronoun,...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by paco2004 3 yr 154 days ago Possessives Prepositions Constructions Nouns Pronouns Gerunds Dialects Accusative

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Re: if you were

Hisself instead of himself.

Re: correct sentence??

Re: What do you know about the history of English?

Re: what kind of comparative structure is it?

Re: contraction

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Re: Beware the grammar expert!

Re: Inferior dialects?

Re: Possessive before a gerund.