What Is "Be" as in "When I be crazing like that"
But when I got up, I felt Imani kick me. It seemed like she was saying for me to shut up. It's not the right time. I couldn't shut up, though. So I lay down and pushed my face deep in the pillow. When I be crying crazy like that, all these strange noises be coming out my mouth. They be coming from deep inside me from a place I don't even know, from a place I don't even want to know. I stayed right in my bed until I quieted down all by myself, until when I opened my mouth ain't nothing come out but my breath. ? Imani All Mine (2000), Connie Rose Porter
Could you tell me what those are grammatically? Nobody has not taught me the usage of be like that in school. I'd like to be taught by you.
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This is not "standard" English. It's a dialect of English that uses "be" instead of "am", "are" and so on, as well as constructions like "ain't nothing", seen here in the last sentence. Although this form is not normally accepted in formal writing, it is used in spoken English by some native speakers of English.
- This is not "standard" English.
- It's a dialect of English that uses "be" instead of "am", "are" and so on, as well as constructions like "ain't nothing", seen here in the last sentence.
- Although this form is not normally accepted in formal writing, it is used in spoken English by some native speakers of English.
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This is not "standard" English. It's a dialect of English that uses "be" instead of "am", "are" and so on, as well as constructions like "ain't nothing", seen here in the last sentence. Although this form is not normally accepted in formal writing, it is used in spoken English by some native speakers of English.
0That is what some people call African-American Vernacular English, a dialect of English that developed in the US cities among the black people, quite an interesting phenomenon. I am not conversant in it, nor is anyone outside the inner city. The writer prides herself on her black identity and purposely writes in that vernacular even though she has an MA from LSU. Perhaps you noticed that she c
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