HM6205 British Dialects Week Two

1) Work in small groups and explain the two different constructions for verb + particle in English.
2) Summarise the use of ‘like’ as a pause-filler, focus marker, and as a means of directly reporting
speech or emotional state (also known as ‘quotative like’).
3) Explain the different uses of teach and learn, borrow and lend.
4) Explain the use of ‘us’ as a singular object pronoun.
5) Explain the use of pronouns in apposition.
6) Explain the use of indefinite ‘this’.
7) Explain the use of multiple negation.
8) Explain the use of ‘ain’t’.
9) Explain the use of past tenses of irregular verbs.
10) Explain the use of ‘never’ as a past tense negative.
11) Explain the use of present tense verb forms with/out 3rd-person singular –s.
12) Explain the use of relative pronouns.
13) Explain the use of personal pronouns.
14) Explain the use of comparatives and superlatives.
15) Explain the use of demonstratives.
16) Explain the use of adverbs.
17) Explain the use of unmarked plurality.
18) Explain the use of prepositions of place.