american english - All I know vs. Alls I know - English Language . . . Price’s 1958 short story is set in rural North Carolina, while both of the 1972 occurrences involve testimony by people living in New Jersey So if “alls I know” (or “alls I can do”) is dialect speech, it may have arisen independently in at least two very different parts of the country
Use of the word alls - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Some speakers of the dialects of which alls is characteristic of also reportedly do not allow the alls-construction with second person subjects The sentence you provided is not one of the characteristic uses of alls as it has been described It seems to resemble phrases like all the more enjoyable It is possible that it is a genuine
What is the proper usage of Yall in southern American dialects Living in Texas for the past eight years I have heard the following used over and over: Y'all, y'alls, y'all's, all y'all, all y'alls, and all y'all's (Think about this nbsp;— "I bought y'all a yawl ") Can't wait to get back to Minnesota where all y'all have to deal with are ufda, ubetcha, ya shure you bet, don't ya know –
single word requests - What is the possessive form of yall . . . I generally hear y'alls's used as the possessive form, but I have also heard yourn Since y'all is a colloquial pronoun, its possessive form is basically liberated from prescriptive linguistics which would probably say that y'all is a contraction for you all and therefore must be possessivized as of all of you
meaning - Grammar of alls well that ends well? - English Language . . . The key is, as John Lawler says, 'extraposition from noun phrase movement 'In particular, with regard to your example, if you have a subject (here the word all) with a long phrase attached to the end of it (here the relative clause that ends well), and then a short verb phrase (here the verb phrase is well), the long phrase that would normally be attached to the subject, can skip over the verb
american english - When is all yallses used? - English Language . . . I grew up (near Knoxville, TN) speaking Standard American English, or what Susan so quaintly describes as "very Southern Idiomatic speech " (Well, they told me it was Standard American English ) It often makes fun of itself and, while 'you all' is plural, 'you alls' is slightly more plural and 'you allses' is really, really plural
How to Un-Abbreviate - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
All I was saying is . . . or All I was saying was Depends when you were saying it “is” is immediate or continuous in time and the first is better if you are referring to something you just said or said a short time ago or something you said in the past but that you still believe