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Atlantaeeee Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

He is the best at what he "do" or "does

Boxer Mayweather at the Final Press Conference (Sat., Aug. 26, 1:07:49) says:
"He is the best at what he do."
Grammatically, is it a correct sentence?
I am wondering whether "the best at" can be considered as a kind of Conjunctive and whether we are allowed to use bare verb ("Do" instead of "Does") after "the best at" like other conjunctives or it had been a kind of street talking or so.
Regards

  

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I think this can only ever be a slang way of putting it; I've only heard it said by black Americans from the 'Deep South' and would imagine there are colloquial linguistic reasons behind it rather than grammatical ones.

— David Hatton

  • I think this can only ever be a slang way of putting it; I've only heard it said by black Americans from the 'Deep South' and would imagine there are colloquial linguistic reasons behind it rather than grammatical ones.
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I think this can only ever be a slang way of putting it; I've only heard it said by black Americans from the 'Deep South' and would imagine there are colloquial linguistic reasons behind it rather than grammatical ones.

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Oh, sorry, I just found out I have wrongly typed "Conjunctive" instead of "Subjunctive".

I mean,

"whether "the best at" can be considered as a kind of Subjunctive".

"whether we are allowed to use bare verb ("Do" instead of "Does") after "the best at" like other Subjunctives."

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