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Yellowstarstruck Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

"and if? that don't work out you still got a rich father"

I heard this watching an American sitcom. I realise native speaker sometimes don't speak it grammatically perfect at times, particularly informal speech. Shouldn't it be " and if that doesn't work out you still got a rich father"?
Cheers Fulvio
  

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yellowstarstruck Shouldn't it be " and if that doesn't work out you still got a rich father"? and if that doesn't work out you've still got a rich father.

  • yellowstarstruck Shouldn't it be " and if that doesn't work out you still got a rich father"?
  • and if that doesn't work out you've still got a rich father.
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yellowstarstruck Shouldn't it be " and if that doesn't work out you still got a rich father"?
Well, correct grammar would be:

...and if that doesn't work out you've still got a rich father.

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