Is-leveling

Is-leveling

Is-leveling is the use of the word "is" in places where standard English has "are" occurring in some nonstandard dialects of English, such as African American Vernacular English. This feature is widely stigmatized as being a solecism.

For example: "We is brothers."

Was-leveling is the use of the word "was" in places where standard English has "were."

Were-leveling is the use of "were" where standard English has "was" leading to sentences like this:

"I were at work".

"The house were built"


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