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Anonymous Posted 3 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence grammatically correct?

"Hey if you guys are getting loaded off them fumes, I'm gonna have to charge you." (The Simpsons)

Doesn't "their" should be used intead of "them"?

  

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anonymous Doesn't Shouldn't "their" should be used instead intead of "them"? No. It's the way that people like this character speak.

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  • anonymous Doesn't Shouldn't "their" should be used instead intead of "them"?
  • No.
  • It's the way that people like this character speak.
  • org/wiki/Eye_dialect , in which the script writer uses the dialect of English that fits the character.
  • While mostly used in dialogue, eye dialect may appear in the narrative depiction of altered spelling made by a character (such as in a letter or diary entry), generally used to more overtly depict characters who are poorly educated or semi-literate.
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anonymousDoesn't Shouldn't "their" should be used instead intead of "them"?

No. It's the way that people like this character speak.
This is called https://en.wikipedi

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anonymousDoesn't "their" should be used intead of "them"?
Shouldn't "their" be used instead of "them"?

No. If you want to change it to standard English, "those" should be used instead of "them". "their" has nothing to do with it.

"them" is a common substitution for "those" in the speech of pe

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