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Peymands Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Tense after 'before' ?
Could you tell me why the tense of the verb after 'before' here is in past, while "I'm" is present?
“I never ast for no fill. I never ast to come at all. I'm here before I knew this here was here. "
Excerpt from: “The violent bear it away"
“I never ast for no fill. I never ast to come at all. I'm here before I knew this here was here. "
Excerpt from: “The violent bear it away"
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The writer is trying to render the sort of speech you would hear from an illiterate Southerner or a black person speaking in the dialect of the black South of those days. You will encounter countless eccentricities of grammar in that book.
- The writer is trying to render the sort of speech you would hear from an illiterate Southerner or a black person speaking in the dialect of the black South of those days.
- You will encounter countless eccentricities of grammar in that book.
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The writer is trying to render the sort of speech you would hear from an illiterate Southerner or a black person speaking in the dialect of the black South of those days. You will encounter countless eccentricities of grammar in that book.
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