Re: Inversion for subjunctive (was "Get" passive)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 23:39 |
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:
> "Do you got a pen"?? To me, that's (to be a stuffy old pedant) completely
> ungrammatical.
According to the rules of formal written/"school" English, sure. And
I tried to talk like that for enough of my life that it doesn't come
quite naturally to me even in a colloquial setting. But it's pretty
common around here.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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