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Onur2695 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Extraordinary usage of ''to be verb''

I saw a scene from a movie

A character said that !!She be talking to her sister!!

What is this ?? I never seen a thing like this
  

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Local dialect once common in the English South West and also wrongly attributed to Pirates.

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  • Local dialect once common in the English South West and also wrongly attributed to Pirates.
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Local dialect once common in the English South West and also wrongly attributed to Pirates.
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"I have never seen anything like this".
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onur2695She be talking to her sister!!
It is a present tense verb form in the grammar of the language AAVE (African-American Vernacular English.)
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I suppose it depends on the movie...
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for my wrong use of perfect tense
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It's not necessary to apologise here. An occasional 'thank-you' is nice, or better still a 'like'.
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