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The grammaticality of “that don't impress me much”
I'd like to know how the sentence "That don't impress me much" sounds to a native English speaker.
The phrase is the title of a song by Shania Twain, and to my eyes it contains a clear error. It is ...
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Question about interrogations in past tense
In regard to this answer, my question is similar but that answer is not clear. I want to know why we use base form of verb, e.g. 'go' to form the past tense instead of past form such as 'went'?
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English questions and negation with *do* in syntax
A former lecturer of mine once explained why, from a syntactic point of view, the English rule that negation and questions are formed with the auxiliary do follows from other syntactic facts about ...
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What is the origin of the 'do' construction?
Modern English seems to require this verb in several circumstances, where most other European languages don't seem to need it. (See? I just used it.)
For example, in questions: "Do you have a dog?" ...
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Why do we use 'did' with questions using the simple past tense?
Where did you go last night?
Where went you last night?
Is there a reason we say the first of the previous two sentences as opposed to the last one?
I know the second sentence is ...
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'Did see' and 'Saw'
The blog post here uses the title `
"Isn't this just the cutest thing you
ever did see?"
` I am sure this is correct, but my question is, but what difference it would have made had he used
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Why is there no form of “do” in questions of the type “who knows?”
I'm wondering whether expressions like the ones below are correct or not. I've seen them several times but they don't seem to follow the typical grammatical structure.
Who comes? (instead of ...
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“She don't care about me”: how to explain this? [duplicate]
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The grammaticality of “that don't impress me much”
I know the rule, the correct form is: "she doesn't care about me," but I heard it in Lost series, I ...
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“She’s got a ticket to ride, but she don’t care” — why? [duplicate]
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The grammaticality of “that don't impress me much”
In the famous Beatles song Ticket to ride, it is said of the protagonist that “she don’t care”. Why ...
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“Don't got” — how common is it in American usage?
I often hear the usage "don't got" in American English as spoken on TV programmes. Recently I was watching season four of "Prison Break" and one character, an Asian computer wizard, repeatedly used ...
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“A child don't know anything” in Gadsby — grammatically right? [duplicate]
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The grammaticality of “that don't impress me much”
In Gadsby, which is almost grammatically not wrong at all, occurs just a solitary construction that I ...
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“Allows not” vs. “does not allow”
Which should I use: allows not or does not allow?
Can I use both?
Are there verbs that does not allow the two forms?
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Do vs. does in a statement [closed]
In the statement "Editorial use of images do not require a model release." which form of do/does would be correct? Should the verb agree with images (as in "images do not require..."), or with ...
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Why is “do” sometimes put before a verb? [duplicate]
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Use of “do” in affirmative statements
Why do people sometimes use the words "do" or "does" in affirmative sentences?
For example:
A: We know a guy!
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