Tham khảo tài liệu 'the teacher’s grammar booksecond edition phần 10', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 244 CHAPTER 7 21. Is you hungry The same question concerning a long-term state however would be structured as 22. Do you be hungry We also see from sentence 21 that is can function in two ways in BEV as an emphasis marker and as a question marker. Thus sentence 23 is perfectly grammatical 23. I is hungry. A variant would be 24. I m is hungry. As a question sentence 23 also would have two variants 25. Is I hungry 26. Is I m hungry Other important features of BEV grammar are shown here The present tense is used in narratives to indicate past action as in They goes to the market. When cardinal adjectives precede nouns the noun is not pluralized as in The candy cost 1 dollar and 50 cent. Relative pronouns in the subject position of a relative clause can be dropped as in Fritz like the woman has red hair. The possessive marker is dropped as in He found Macarena coat. Whereas Standard English alternates a negative and a positive in a sentence I never want to see you again Black English uses double negatives as in He don never goin call. APPLYING KEY IDEAS 1. In addition to your own dialect how many others are there in your community that you are aware of 2. How many dialects do you understand DIALECTS 245 3. What may be some factors not mentioned in this chapter that inhibit the acquisition and use of Standard English among children 4. Listen carefully to a dialect in your community and list the features that differ from your home dialect. 5. Television news anchors generally speak what is known as broadcast standard a hybrid dialect that is often identified as coming closest to spoken Standard English. What are some features of your home dialect that differ from broadcast standard 6. What value is there in knowing that BEV is well structured according to its own grammar 7. What are some possible connections between BEV and academic performance 8. Team up with two other students in your class. Using what you have learned to this point develop a set of three activities .
