By Singlish, Verbs

I came across the following sentences in one of Harold Robbins' novels: 1. He told the driver to drop him at the corner. 2. You may drop me at the hospital later. 3. The driver got down from the truck. They are not part of conversations. I have learnt that when it comes to setting...

Many Singaporeans do speak very good English, but the reason many western native English speakers don't consider that Singaporeans in general speak 'native English' is because of the predominance of the Singlish dialect. Singlish in it's most extreme forms lacks inflection for tense and plural...