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Language Variation

Task B - our answer to question 1

Translate this passage into Standard English, noting the changes you make as you go.

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The grammar of sentence 5 in particular is also rather loosely structured, but this does not seem to be a regional dialect feature as such. Rather it is probably an attempt to indicate that the narrator is not well educated.

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