Question about sentences
Dear all,
Kindly see the following sentences. Here I would like to know this "ain’t" is the contracted form of which words.
"Nobody is Mother Teresa, ain’t nobody Jesus, ain’t nobody Moses out here."
Thank you.
Top answer
That is rustic or illiterate or dialectal speech. It does not follow conventional rules, and the contraction does not necessarily stand for any particular words. It also employs double negatives, a sort of backwoods rhetorical device to accentuate the negative, but only after the initial standard single negative.
- That is rustic or illiterate or dialectal speech.
- It does not follow conventional rules, and the contraction does not necessarily stand for any particular words.
- It also employs double negatives, a sort of backwoods rhetorical device to accentuate the negative, but only after the initial standard single negative.
- But you can think of "ain't" as "isn't" here.
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That is rustic or illiterate or dialectal speech. It does not follow conventional rules, and the contraction does not necessarily stand for any particular words. It also employs double negatives, a sort of backwoods rhetorical device to accentuate the negative, but only after the initial standard single negative. But you can think of "ain't" as "isn't" here.
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