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 ----------------------- Brett Reynolds English Language Centre Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Toronto, Ontario, Canada [log in to unmask] To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/