‫أمين حمسن حسن سلامين‬

‫الفرقة الرابعة – أداب اللغة الإجنلزيية‬

2. A Raisin in the Sun

1. Walter Lee

• Copula/auxiliary absence
• He just going to have to start getting up earlier. (P. 27)
• That’s what you mad about… (P. 27)
• I been married eleven years… (P. 33)
• You such a nice girl (P. 36)
• I know you a busy little boy. (P. 78)
• but they teaching you how to be a man? (P. 78)
• You happy? (P. 78)
• You all sad? (P. 96)
• We just telling you ’bout the gentleman who came to see you this
afternoon. (P. 109)
• We going to do business with him. (P. 126)

SAE:
• I’m interested in you. (P. 35)
 • Well, they look crazy as hell (P. 77)
• Your old man is all right, man. (P. 77)
• Man, I’m a volcano. (P. 78)
• That’s sad too (P. 96)
• And you know where I am going right now (P. 96)
• your daddy’s gonna make a transaction (P. 98)
• he’s been callin’ you at home (P. 115)
• he’s got to be somewhere. (P. 116)
• It’s all gone (P. 116)
• That’s right! That’s good. (P. 126)
• Mama, you know it’s all divided up. (P. 127)
• I’m telling you that’s what’s going to happen! (P. 127)
• I’m going to put on the show, Mama. (P. 128)
• that’s your neighborhood out there! (P. 129)
• we are very proud people (P. 132)
• she’s going to be a doctor (P. 132)
• This is my son (P. 132)

• Invariant "Be"
• she be listening good and asking you questions… (P. 32)
• That be ten thousand each. (P. 33)
SAE:
• your daddy’s gonna make a transaction (P. 98)
• It’s all gone (P. 116)
• that’s your neighborhood out there! (P. 129)
• This is my son (P. 132)

• Completive "Done"
• Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you (P. 36)
 • The way something done come down between us. (P. 82)

SAE:
• what is it you’ve decided? (P. 99)
• I’ve figured it out finally. (P. 127)
• he’s taught me something. (P. 127)
• I have worked as a chauffeur most of my life (P. 132)
• and we have all thought about your offer (P. 132)
• And we have decided to move into our house (P. 132)

• Double and multiple negation

• I don’t want nothing (P. 36)
• No—there ain’t no woman! (P. 67)
• that ain’t nothing at all. (P. 68)
• they got to go talk about something ain’t nobody never heard of!
(P. 80)
• I don’t want no milk. (P. 81)
• Naw—you ain’t never been wrong about nothing, Mama. (P. 97)
• Daddy ain’t going to never be drunk again (P. 98)
• Man, that ain’t nothing to want to be! (P. 98)
• We don’t want to hear no exact terms of no arrangements. (P.
107)
• There ain’t nothing wrong, is there? (P. 114)
• There ain’t no causes (P. 128)

All negated utterances found, have the non-standard "ain't" in them, so

there are no SAE examples

• Negative inversion
• Ain’t nobody bothering you. (P. 26)
 • Ain’t nothing the matter with me! (P. 66)
• Ain’t nothing the matter with us. (P. 109)

SAE:
• you ain’t even looked at it. (P. 65)
• I ain’t just talking ’bout it, baby (P. 127)

• Lack of subject-verb agreement

• She think more of you. (P. 32)
• Man say to his woman… (P. 33)
• Your eggs is getting cold! (P. 33)
• Why—what she do for me? (P. 67)
• No he don’t! (P. 77)
• I’ll excuse myself when I needs to be excused! (P. 77)
• How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each
other. (P. 81)
• his eyes is always closed (P. 96)
• And things is going to be very different with us in seven years,
Travis (P. 98)
• Maybe you was late yesterday (P. 115)
• He don’t even count in the big scheme of things. (P. 127)
• Oh, we was some proud folks this afternoon, yeah. (P. 127)

SAE:
• She looks like she got burnt legs or something! (P. 77)
• I mean he thinks big (P. 77)
• It was your money and you did what you wanted with it. (P. 87)
• He talks to me. (P. 96)
• And there’s this other guy who plays the piano (P. 96)
• Just what he wants to see. (P. 127)
 • I’ve figured it out finally. (P. 127)
• she does domestic work in people’s kitchens. (P. 132)
• and we have all thought about your offer (P. 132)

• The use of "ain't"

• you ain’t even looked at it. (P. 65)
• It’s been rough, ain’t it, baby? (P. 81)
• No, Daddy ain’t drunk. (P. 98)
• Seems to me she ain’t been very appreciative around here. (P.
111)
• I ain’t just talking ’bout it, baby (P. 127)
• Ain’t she supposed to wear no pearls? (P. 128)

SAE:
• sometimes I see guys don’t look much older than me (P. 68)
• You just don’t understand, Mama (P. 69)
• They don’t know how to entertain people in this house, man. (P.
77)
• I don’t even know how to try. (P. 82)
• Rich people don’t have to be flashy (P. 99)
• Travis didn’t want to go in with the rest of us, Mama. (P. 111)
• We don’t know what it is (P. 111)
• I didn’t make this world! (P. 128)

• Question inverted formation

• You want to know why? (P. 80)
• You know what I like about the Green Hat? (P. 96)
• You trust me like that, Mama? (P. 97)
 • you know what it means to climb up in the chariot? (P. 110)
• You mean maybe he didn’t want too many people in on the
business down there? (P. 115)

SAE:
• Is he out yet? (P. 26)
• What’s the matter with you? (P. 26)
• why can’t you do something for the family? (P. 36)
• Did it come? (P. 65)
• What’s dangerous? (P. 67)
• Who’s fighting you? (P. 80)
• Mama, where have you been? (P. 82)
• what do you want to be when you grow up? (P. 98)
• what is it you’ve decided? (P. 99)
• What can we do for you, Mr. Lindner! (P. 103)
• What do you mean? (P. 106)
• Should we give it to her? (P. 111)
• Man, what are you talking about! (P. 115)
• Don’t you know who The Man is? (P. 126)

• The use of "what" as a relative pronoun

• Mama—you don’t know all the things a man what got leisure can
find to do in this city (P. 96)
• Extra:
I guess y’all seen the news what’s all over the colored paper this
week… (P. 91) [Johnson's speech]

There are no SAE examples for this grammatical feature.

 • Irregular past forms
• It was give to me this way! (P. 128)

SAE:
• and I parked the car and I sat and looked at the steel mills all day
long. (P. 96)
• You mean he went by himself. (P. 115)
• Man, I put my life in your hands (P. 116)

• Non-standard use of determiners and pronouns

• all you can say is eat them eggs… (P. 33)
• Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you (P. 36)
• them drums move me! (P. 72)
• They look as funny as them black knee socks Beneatha wears out
of here all the time. (P. 77)
• Me and you ought to sit down and talk sometimes, man. (P. 78)
• just to talk proper and read books and wear them faggoty-looking
white shoes (P. 78)
• me and you got to find him. (P. 116)
• And all the time, man, them takers is out there operating, just
taking and taking. (P. 127)
• and he told us that them people out there where you want us to
move (P. 127)

SAE:
• Me, the boy (P. 32)
• So tired—moaning and groaning all the time (P. 32)
• Don’t understand about building their men up (P. 34)
 • Y'all
• Y’all come on! (P. 135)

SAE:
• You all some eeeevil people at eight o’clock in the morning. (P. 27)
• I understand you all going to buy that big hotel on the Drive? (P.
77)
• I see you all all the time (P. 78)

Extra findings for Walter ):

Two utterances that I found, are formal, not only standard!
• Girl, I do believe you are the first person in the history of the
entire human race to successfully brainwash yourself. (P. 102)
• And he who takes most is smartest (P.128)

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2. Lena Younger
(Mama)

• Copula/auxiliary absence
• I know—but you so thin (P. 38)
• You almost thin as Travis. (P. 40)
• We just plain working folks. (P. 40)
 • Who you going out with tomorrow night? (P. 45)
• I seen one marching out of there like Napoleon yesterday. (P. 52)
• you sick? (P. 56)
• Do as you told. (P. 62)
• I don’t know what we all so excited about ’round here for. (P. 63)
• Something eating you up like a crazy man. (P. 66)
• You a good-looking boy. (P. 68)
• If you a son of mine, tell her! (P. 70)
•
SAE:
• It’s going to be yours when you get to be a man. (P. 83)
• And there’s a yard with a little patch of dirt (P. 85)
• He’s good. (P. 91)
• Bennie’s gone to bed (P. 91)
• He’s lying down. (P. 93)
• if it means it’s going to destroy my boy. (P. 97)
• I’m going to make us the biggest dinner we ever ate tonight (P.
133)

• Invariant "Be"
• What time you be home from school today? (P. 44)
• Look out there, girl, before you be spilling some of that stuff
on that child! (P. 52)
• I’m waiting to hear how you be your father’s son. (P. 69)

SAE:
• He’s good. (P. 91)
• He’s lying down. (P. 93)
• I’m going to make us the biggest dinner we ever ate tonight (P.
133)
 • Completive "Done"
• What done got into you, girl? (P. 40)
• How come you done taken it in your mind to learn to play the
guitar? (P. 44)
• One done almost lost his mind thinking… (P. 49)
• We had even picked out the house. (P. 42)
• Much baking powder as she done borrowed from me all these
years (P. 63)
• but how different we done become. (P. 69)
• and say we done give up one baby to poverty (P. 69)
• We done thought about all that Mis’ Johnson. (P. 93)
• You done gone and bought your grandmother a hat? (P. 111)
• Yes—death done come in this here house. (P. 129)
• Make sure you done taken into account what… (P. 130)

SAE:
• Bennie’s gone to bed (P. 91)
• I’ve helped do it to you, haven’t I, son? (P. 97)
• Have you cried for that boy today? (P. 130)

• Double and multiple negation

• just couldn’t never catch up with his dreams (P. 43)
• I ain’t never been wrong ’bout a woman neither. (P. 52)
• I don’t think I never met no African before. (P. 53)
• We ain’t never been no people to act silly ’bout no money (P. 63)
• things we ain’t never even thought about hardly (P. 68)
• he wasn’t meant to wait on nobody. (P. 94)
 • What you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t
own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for
you. (P. 97)
• I ain’t never stop trusting you. (P. 97)
• Me and Big Walter just didn’t never learn right. (P. 125)
• and there ain’t nothing left for me to say. (P. 133)

All negated utterances found, have the non-standard "ain't" in them, so

there are no SAE examples

• Negative inversion
• And didn’t none of it happen. (P. 42)
• Ain’t nobody trying to stop you. (P. 45)
• Ain’t nobody said you wasn’t grown. (P. 66)

All negated utterances found, have the non-standard "ain't" in them, so

there are no SAE examples

• Lack of subject-verb agreement

• if this little old plant don’t get more sun… (P. 38)
• You looks right peaked. (P. 38)
• he tries, don’t he? (P. 39)
• What was they fighting about? (P. 39)
• We was going to set away (P. 42)
• I just wonders sometimes why you has to flit so from one thing to
another all the time. (P. 45)
• you wasn’t brought up that way. (P. 48)
• You ain’t got the pride you was born with! (P. 53)
• Doctor say everything going to be all right? (P. 55)
 • I just hope you understand that our house don’t always look like
this. (P. 60)
• What’s that he call you? (P. 60)
• I guess the world really do change (P. 68)
• In my time we was worried about not being lynched (P. 68)
• And from now on any penny that come out of it or that go in it is
for you to look after. (P. 97)
• I always remembers people… (P. 125)
• You needs to slow down and see life a little more like it is. (P. 125)
• No—I sees things differently now. (P. 126)
• You know how these young folks is nowadays, mister. (P. 133)
• My son said we was going to move (P. 133)

SAE:
• He likes lots of butter. (P. 39)
• something has changed. (P. 68)
• I want him to be the first one to hear (P. 83)
• it makes a difference in a man when… (P. 85)
• When it gets like that in life—you just got to do something
different (P. 87)
• Yes, he does. (P. 91)
• She was out this evening. (P. 91)
• The child was on her way to the bathroom. (P. 93)
• Well, it sounds just like him. (P. 94)
• That leaves sixty-five hundred dollars. (P. 97)
• That’s what they always used to say down home (P. 125)

• The use of "ain't"

• It ain’t Christian. (P. 40)
• I ain’t rightly decided. (P. 41)
• Now I ain’t saying what I think. (P. 52)
 • We ain’t exactly moving out there to get bombed. (P. 93)
• It ain’t much, but it’s all I got in the world (P. 97)
• We ain’t finished packin’ yet. (P. 112)

SAE:
• No—didn’t get mine yet this week. (P. 91)
• I don’t mean for yourself (P. 130)
• Didn’t you have a nice time? (P. 89)
• Don’t you want some more pie? (P. 92)
• I am afraid you don’t understand. (P. 133)

• Question inverted formation

• You aiming to iron all them things? (P. 38)
• You had breakfast? (P. 40)
• You mean it done really come? (P. 63)
• You done found it in some other house? (P. 67)
• What doctor you went to? (P. 55)
• You all have a nice time tonight? (P. 89)

SAE:
• Where’s your robe? (P. 38)
• what’s the matter with you today? (P. 40)
• What is it that’s changing, Ruth? (P. 49)
• Did you get all them chores done already? (P. 51)
• How do you do? (P. 60)
• Didn’t you have a nice time? (P. 89)
• Don’t you want some more pie? (P. 92)
• What’s the matter with you all? (P. 109)
• What are we all standing around here for? (P. 112)
 • Have you cried for that boy today? (P. 130)
• where did I put that box with my skillets in it? (P. 133)

• Irregular past forms

• I guess that’s how come that man finally worked hisself to death
like he done. (P. 43)
• …like you done this morning (P. 64)
• You understand what I done, don’t you? (P. 86)

SAE:
• And then, Lord, when I lost that baby (P. 43)
• I did the best I could. (P. 86)
• Son, I gave you sixty-five hundred dollars. (P. 116)

• Regularization of reflexive pronouns

• Oh, that man grieved hisself! (P. 43)
• I guess that’s how come that man finally worked hisself to death
like he done. (P. 43)
• Brother still worrying hisself sick about that money? (P. 39)
• Why don’t you all never let the child explain hisself. (P. 83)
• It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in hisself ’cause the
world done whipped him so! (P. 130)

SAE:
• I spec people going to always be drinking themselves some liquor.
(P. 40)
• Tell that youngun to get himself up here, at once! (P. 55)
• killing himself (P. 117)
 • Non-standard use of determiners and pronouns
• My children and they tempers. (P. 38)
• Me and your father went to trouble to get you and Brother to
church every Sunday. (P. 48)
• them steps is longer than they used to be. (P. 82)
• Me and Beneatha still have to share our room (P. 85)
• Them houses they put up for colored in them areas way out all
seem to cost twice as much as other houses. (P. 86)
• You know them steps can get you after a day’s work. (P. 89)
• Me and Big Walter just didn’t never learn right. (P. 125)
• Beneatha, what’s the matter with them stockings? (P. 134)

SAE:
• Lord have mercy, look at that poor bed. (P. 39)
• Brother still worrying hisself sick about that money? (P. 39)
• It’s too early in the morning (P. 40)
• where did I put that box with my skillets in it? (P. 133)

• Y'all
• [None found]
SAE:
• Now you all be quiet. (P. 36)
• I spec if it wasn’t for you all … (P. 64)
• You all have a nice time tonight? (P. 89)

Extra findings for Lena ):

One utterance that I found, is formal, not only standard!
• I am afraid you don’t understand. (P. 133)

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3. Beneatha Younger

• Copula/auxiliary absence
• [None found]

SAE:
• he’s so shallow. (P. 46)
• they are wasting their time. (P. 46)
• Listen, I’m going to be a doctor. (P. 47)
• He’s been studying in Canada all summer. (P. 53)
• Because you are still where I left off. (P. 120)
• It’s all dead now. (P. 128)

• Completive "Done"
• [None found]

SAE:
• I’ve met Mrs. Murchison. (P. 47)
• too many things have happened today. (P. 123)
 • Double and multiple negation
• it’s not hardly two good yet (P. 112)

SAE:
• I have never asked anyone around here to do anything for
me! (P. 36)
• words will never hurt me! (P. 103)
• And nobody asked me, nobody consulted me (P. 121)
• There is nothing left to love. (P. 130)

• Lack of subject-verb agreement

• [None found]

SAE:
• it’s for her to decide how she wants to use it. (P. 36)
• because that’s what it says in all the novels that men write. (P. 59)
• were still tattooing themselves with blue dragons! (P. 76)
• if there are two things we, as a people, have got to overcome… (P.
95)
• I guess I always think things have more emphasis if they are big,
somehow. (P. 101)
• and it was very dangerous, you know (P. 119)
• I know that’s what you think. (P. 120)
• Because you are still where I left off. (P. 120)
• Asagai, there is only one large circle that we march in (P. 120)
• too many things have happened today. (P. 123)
 • It’s all dead now. (P. 128)

• The use of "ain't"

• Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there! (P. 110)

SAE:
• Because it doesn’t seem deep enough (P. 120)
• I don’t know what I feel about anything right this minute. (P. 123)

• Question inverted formation

• You pregnant? (P. 54)

SAE:
• Where’s the paper? (P. 35)
• Is there anything wrong with that? (P. 45)
• where did Ruth go? (P. 52)
• What’s the matter with her, Mama? (P. 56)
• What did you bring me? (P. 57)
• Why are you angry, George? (P. 88)
• And where does it end? (P. 120)
• Did you see yourself on that Great Day sitting down at the
Conference Table (P. 124)
• What do you want to see him for! (P. 126)

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 4. Ruth Younger

• Copula/auxiliary absence
• What you mean out? (P. 26)
• Eat your eggs, they gonna be cold. (P. 33)
• but you still a little girl. (P. 48)
• you taking it all too seriously. (P. 49)
• Where you going? (P. 66)
• Who you welcoming? (P. 71)
• How much it going to cost? (P. 84)
• Well, they bound to fit something in the whole house. (P. 100)

SAE:
• There are colored men who do things. (P. 34)
• She’s saying he’s crazy. (P. 46)
• He’s had a little to drink (P. 74)
• I guess that means people like Willy Harris. (P. 80)
• I’m sorry about this new baby, Walter. (P. 81)
• about the way we were going to live (P. 82)
• He’s been very sick. (P. 95)
• but we were so sure he’d be able to come in today. (P. 95)
• You’re going to lose your job. (P. 95)
• That’s your mama’s good china (P. 100)
• I’m going to run me a tub of water (P. 101)
• that’s the way the crackers crumble. (P. 109)

• Completive "Done"
 • you done spoiled that boy so. (P. 39)
• Girl, you done lost your natural mind!? (P. 74)
• Lord, that man—done changed so ’round here. (P. 101)

SAE:
• You’ve gone and got yourself upset. (P. 64)
• I’ve never been to New York. (P. 76)
• He’s had a little to drink (P. 74)
• He’s been very sick. (P. 95)
• She said Mr. Arnold has had to take a cab for three days (P. 95)

• Double and multiple negation

• He ain’t hardly got in there good yet. (P. 26)
• I ain’t got no fifty cents this morning. (P. 28)
• that ain’t none of our money. (P. 33)
• Honey, you never say nothing new. (P. 34)
• We ain’t never had none before (P. 63)
• I sure don’t feel like whipping nobody today! (P. 86)
• Honey, they ain’t going to read that from no airplane. (P. 101)
• You didn’t say nothing bad to him, did you? (P. 124)

All negated utterances found, have the non-standard "ain't" in them, so

there are no SAE examples

• Negative inversion
• Ain’t nothing the matter with me. (P. 26)
• Ain’t nothin’ can tear at you like losin’ your baby. (P. 43)
• Ain’t nothing wrong with me to be lying in no bed for. (P. 62)
All negated utterances found, have the non-standard "ain't" in them, so
there are no SAE examples

• Lack of subject-verb agreement

• I hopes to God you ain’t going to get up here first thing this
morning… (P. 26)
• I don’t care what teacher say. (P. 28)
• He and Bennie was at it again. (P. 38)
• Oh, she just have a fit (P. 41)
• Honey, I knew you was odd. (P. 46)
• You … sure … loves that little old thing… (P. 49)
• Everybody say it’s got to do with them bombs and things (P. 76)
• life don’t have to be like this. (P. 82)
• they was too good a bargain to pass up. (P. 100)
• All the stores and things was closed up. (P. 101)
• there wasn’t many people on the streets (P. 101)
• we was still holding hands, me and Walter. (P. 101)

SAE:
• she says everything is going to be fine (P. 55)
• There are colored men who do things. (P. 34)
• She’s saying he’s crazy. (P. 46)
• about the way we were going to live (P. 82)
• He’s been very sick. (P. 95)
• You’re going to lose your job. (P. 95)

• The use of "ain't"

• I hopes to God you ain’t going to get up here first thing this
morning… (P. 26)
• it’s what ain’t been done to it! (P. 74)
 • Warm, ain’t it? (P. 76)
• She ain’t come back yet. (P. 77)
• There ain’t so much between us, Walter (P. 82)
• Walter, you ain’t been to work for three days! (P. 95)
• the notes ain’t but a hundred and twenty-five a month. (P. 125)

SAE:
• I don’t know what her excuse is. (P. 74)
• I don’t know where we lost it (P. 81)
• I don’t know, honey. (P. 82)
• why don’t we just try to talk about it (P. 80)
• The picture wasn’t much good (P. 101)
• Why don’t you answer the door, man? (P. 113)

• Question inverted formation

• What kind of eggs you want? (P. 26)
• You get to New York a lot? (P. 76)
• You want some hot milk? (P. 81)
• How much it going to cost? (P. 84)

SAE:
• Can’t you be a little sweeter sometimes? (P. 37)
• What are you going to do with it? (P. 40)
• Where did Bennie go? (P. 62)
• Would you like a nice cold beer? (P. 76)
• How do you know it was an insult? (P. 80)
• Where did he go? (P. 124)
• why don’t we just try to talk about it (P. 80)
• Why don’t you answer the door, man? (P. 113)
 • Non-standard use of determiners and pronouns
• Everybody say it’s got to do with them bombs and things (P. 76)
• You know the last time me and Walter went to the movies
together? (P. 101)

SAE:
• If you don’t take this comb and fix this here head, you better! (P.
29)
• He needs this chance, Lena. (P. 40)

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5. Travis Younger

• Copula/auxiliary absence
• Grandmama, you rich. (P. 64)
• I always wanted to live in a house. (P. 83)
• What you gonna do tonight, Daddy? (P. 98)

SAE:
• It’s a gardening hat! (P. 112)

• Double and multiple negation

• You don’t work in no office, Daddy. (P. 98)
All negated utterances found, have the non-standard "ain't" in them, so
there are no SAE examples

• Lack of subject-verb agreement

• She say to tell you that she don’t have much. (P. 62)
• don’t she want to be rich? (P. 64)
• she says she don’t want me to be like that (P. 98)

SAE:
• Sometimes Mama asks me that too. (P. 98)
• It’s a gardening hat! (P. 112)
• Like the ladies always have on in the magazines when they work in
their gardens (P. 112)

• The use of "ain't"

• [None found]

SAE:
• I don’t know, Grandmama. (P. 83)
• I don’t know then. (P. 98)
• You don’t work in no office, Daddy. (P. 98)

• Question inverted formation

• You drunk? (P. 98)
SAE:
• Where did Mama go this morning? (P. 51)
• What’s the matter, Daddy? (P. 98)

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6. Joseph Asagai

• Completive "Done"
• [None found]

SAE:
• I thought you were the most serious little thing I had ever seen (P.
58)
• It’s just that every American girl I have known has said that to me.
(P. 59)
• Don’t you see they have always been there? (P. 122)

• Lack of subject-verb agreement

• [None found]
SAE:
• you were quite glad when I went away. (P. 57)
• They are from my sister’s personal wardrobe. (P. 58)
• Ah, I like the look of packing crates! (P. 118)
• It makes me think of Africa. (P. 118)
• That is the mistake. (P. 120)
• and you are grateful to him (P. 121)
• this is what I’m trying to tell you (P. 122)

• The use of "ain't"

• [None found]

SAE:
• It isn’t a circle (P. 120)
• I do not mean across the city (P. 122)
• Don’t you see they have always been there? (P. 122)

• Question inverted formation

• And it is ugly to you that way? (P. 58)
• you mutilate it every week? (P. 58)
• And it’s gone? (P. 118)
• And you’ve stopped caring? (P. 119)

SAE:
• Is something wrong? (P. 56)
 • Were you born with it like that? (P. 57)
• But what does it matter? (P. 58)
• do you understand? (P. 118)
• What kind of a mood is this? (P. 118)
• Was it your money? (P. 121)
• But did you earn it? (P. 121)
• Would you have had it at all if your father had not died? (P. 121)
• Don’t you see they have always been there? (P. 122)

Extra findings for Joseph ):

One utterance that I found, is archaic (or formidably formal), not only
standard!
• “Ah—so this is what the New World hath finally wrought …” (P.
123)
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7. George Murchison

• Completive "Done"
• [None found]

SAE:
• What have you done to your head? (P. 74)
• Look, we’ve had a nice evening (P. 88)
 • Lack of subject-verb agreement
• [None found]

SAE:
• we’re going to the theatre (P. 74)
• Here we go! (P. 75)
• your heritage is nothing… (P. 75)
• I hope she hurries up. (P. 76)
• You’re a nice-looking girl (P. 88)
• it has nothing to do with thoughts. (P. 89)

• The use of "ain't"

• [None found]

SAE:
• we’re not going to be in it (P. 74)
• that isn’t what it means at all (P. 75)
• I know it and I don’t mind it sometimes (P. 88)
• Guys aren’t going to go for the atmosphere (P. 88)
• It doesn’t go with you. (P. 88)

• Question inverted formation

• Oh—you’ve been? (P. 76)
• You know something? (P. 79)

SAE:
• What have you done to your head? (P. 74)
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