Re: Inversion for subjunctive (was "Get" passive)
| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 23:45 |
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Michael Poxon <mike@...> wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification!
> "Do you got a pen"?? To me, that's (to be a stuffy old pedant) completely
> ungrammatical.
> Mike
>>
>> "I've got a cold", sure, but "do you have a pen" would be the norm for
>> the second - in relaxed settings, even "do you got a pen", but
>> probably in that case shortened to just "Got a pen?".
"Do you got a pen?" sounds strange to me, but "You got a pen?" sounds
fine (in an informal register). "D'you got a pen?" seems okay, too,
with "d'y" sometimes realized as /dZ)/, in my (Northern Californian)
'lect.