Timeline for "I am finished my sandwich" sounds correct but "I am started my sandwich" does not?
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| Sep 25, 2015 at 12:36 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @Mari-LouA: that's going to happen whenever a questioner asks a question that (because of its suppositions) is about a dialect with which the answerer is unfamiliar. These grammar rules describe one end of the variation found by Yale. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 7:27 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | It seems the OP belongs to this category: "If speakers accept done, they will also accept finished, but not necessarily started." | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 7:13 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | This answer conflicts seems to conflict with the findings and the conclusion made by Yale University: There is variation across dialects in terms of which verbs speakers allow in this construction. According to Yerastov (e.g. 2010a, 2010b), there is a hierarchy along the lines of finished > done > started. In other words, if speakers accept started (as in I'm started my homework), they will accept all three verbs. | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 4:44 | history | answered | choster | CC BY-SA 3.0 |