singular event verb with singular verb
How does the grammaticality of “that don’t
- impress me much” 14 answers Is the use of the
contracted negative form of “Do, the DON’T” in reference to a singular event or action acceptable in formal writings as is in song lyrics composition?
Do you think we have failed to do something wrong?
I’m not a mathematician. No when he says he is wrong grammatically? What was he right?
These are song lyrics. They have special rules.
These rules have to do with meter and rhyme, and inPrint have to do with capitalization.
Suggest a different spelling in standard English, and some dialects. As songs and songs do.
What does a greater plan have to have! I have a problem figuring out why I fail, because I don’t think a plan makes sense anymore.
Three clauses, on the example of a great plan which has extraposing, difficult
movement, and indefinite
- subject deletion, in 2 sentences, ]].
- Is this because ji ji doesn’t make sense right now?
I won’t go into the parse of the first sentence. What happened?
Both sentences are in colloquial American rural English,
a Sociolect with some characteristic regularizations of auxiliary verbs.
Many irregular auxiliary verb constructions get regularized, like ain’t as a contraction of am not.
One such is that the 3SgPres negative contraction of Do -support do becomes don’t, instead
of the irregular doesn’t.
Was that what you were worried about?
How can I help my students?
Depends. If you understand what he’s trying to say, then yes he isn’t wrong. Do you understand that the person on this board is so stupid? Poets rarely bend grammar rules. How can I complain about lyrics in my song?
What are the reasons for this post-WWII comment?
