amc80
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In another forum there is a debate about grammar. Specifically, saying something like "I seen."
This was one of the responses:
Actually dropping the verb in sentences such as "I got" and "I seen" is technically grammatically fine. There are many dialects of languages that do that at and even in english it's fine to make a contraction there. "I've got" "I've seen". Basically it is AAVE (African-American Vernacular English).
Is that right? It seems like just because a particular dialect commonly says something a certain way it doesn't mean it's grammatically correct. And AAVE (never heard of that) is the same as Ebonics, right?
This was one of the responses:
Actually dropping the verb in sentences such as "I got" and "I seen" is technically grammatically fine. There are many dialects of languages that do that at and even in english it's fine to make a contraction there. "I've got" "I've seen". Basically it is AAVE (African-American Vernacular English).
Is that right? It seems like just because a particular dialect commonly says something a certain way it doesn't mean it's grammatically correct. And AAVE (never heard of that) is the same as Ebonics, right?