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- Wasnt vs werent - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which one would be correct? I wish it weren't raining today I wish it wasn't raining today I wish it were raining today I wish it was raining today
- word order - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There are linguists who base their ideas on how languages are actually used - they're called "descriptivists" - and there are those who believe that there are language rules which are either correctly or incorrectly applied - those are the "prescriptivists " A descriptivist would obviously say that "weren't you" is correct because it's very common (actually more common than "were you not") So
- subjunctive mood - if it wasnt for. . . vs if it werent for . . .
Should it be "if it weren't for holes, a bagel would be a bun" or "if it wasn't for holes, a bagel would be a bun"? I've been reading about the subjunctive and how it is generally used with "if" w
- Which is correct? So why wasnt werent you good enough?
Speaking as one Yorkshireman to another… The thing is, that in 'proper Yorkshire-ese' when spoken it would likely come out closer to 'Why want [or wənt] you…' with little differentiation between whether the word being substituted was originally wasn't or weren't Similar to the 'would of, could of' problem, it's heard so frequently in its abbreviated form that people become unaware of
- grammaticality - if it wasnt for or if it werent for? - English . . .
I don't know what should to write with I would think you were bluffing if it, should it be wasn't or weren't for?
- Were not vs. we arent - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Given these are primarily spoken forms, and that ordinarily we're only going to apply one of the two possible contractions, I imagine we tend to just apply the first one because it comes first - by the time we get to the second one it's just too late to get a look-in I don't think this implies any difference in meaning - it just shows we don't plan all our speech that far in advance
- Wasnt vs. Werent - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I was having a little debate on a grammar issue with someone The sentence is: We wasn't going to, but Jordan was skipping all the way to the toy shop I said that it should be: We weren't going
- Can werent be used in reference to a singular noun?
I've been watching a TV sitcom lately, "Last Tango in Halifax " A main character uses "weren't" instead of "wasn't" and I am wondering if that is considered correct in some areas or dialects? For
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