Which is the correct version?
1. You was here last night too.
2. You were here last night too.
I would say the second one is the correct, but I heard the first one in the movie "Home Alone 2". So I am a little confused.
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These are the correct forms for the past tense of "be": I was You were He / she / it was They were We were Children often make grammatical mistakes and so do uneducated people. "
- These are the correct forms for the past tense of "be": I was You were He / she / it was They were We were Children often make grammatical mistakes and so do uneducated people.
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These are the correct forms for the past tense of "be":
I was
You were
He / she / it was
They were
We were
Children often make grammatical mistakes and so do uneducated people.
Some (nonstandard) dialects of English also use "you was."
0anonymousI am a little confused.
Do not use dialog in movies, novels, or plays to learn a language, especially not English, which has so many varieties that include non-standard elements.
Remember that a writer has put these words into the mouths of the characters as a way of telling the audience what kind of characters they are. Characters in dramas
0anonymous I heard the first one in the movie "Home Alone 2"
That line was spoken by "Johnny", the caricature of a gangster thug in the fictitious movie-within-a-movie Angels with Even Filthier Souls, purported sequel to the equally fake Angels with Filthy Souls from the first Home Alone. Johnny's style of speech is formulaic in movies,
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