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Chapter 15: AFRICAN‐AMERICAN ENGLISH

Feature AAE SAE Examples
Third person Omitted or used with Added to the The boy want to run./
singular –s the 1st person and verb The boy wants to run.
may mark both a
main verb and an I does./ I do.
infinitive in the same
sentence She wants to eats it./
She wants to eat it.

Plural –s Is omitted to reduce Is used to mark He have fifty cent./ He
redundancy with plurals has fifty cents.
nouns of measure
(i.e., numbers) Here two shoe./ Here
are two shoes.

Irregular plurals Plural –s is added Forms are few They have three childs./
and varied They have three
children.

Possessive –s Is absent or is used The ‘s is used to That John ball./ That is
when possession is mark possession John’s ball.

already marked
The car is mine’s./ The
car is mine.

Pronouns Substitutions of Forms do not I need them books./I
subject, object and vary need those books.
possessive pronouns
are common. That they laundry./ That
is their laundry.

Article “an” Is substituted with Is used before I want a apple./ I want
“a” before nouns nouns beginning an apple.
beginning with a with a vowel
vowel

Prepositions Are distributed Must be included Where my car at?/
differently or are Where’s my car?
omitted
We got out here./ We 98
got out of here.

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