On 14-May-09, at 6:41 PM, Bill Spruiell wrote:
>
>
> What I’m seeing, though, are forms like “I was read this book” or  
> “These short story are….”; they’re in papers written by native  
> English-speakers who don’t speak any of the dialects that would  
> normally drop those suffixes, and the same students do use the  
> suffixes in speech (it’s exactly the reverse of the usual  
> situation, in which students don’t know they have to write bits  
> that they don’t say). If I draw attention to a line in which  
> there’s a missing –ing, etc., the students frequently *can’t* see  
> anything unusual about it;

I'm afraid I can't see anything unusual about your first example  
either. What am I missing?

Best,
Brett

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Brett Reynolds
English Language Centre
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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