A question about a conversation from a movie named Prison Break
A man say to another man “you said you had saw him this morning？" "yes,I was"
do he answer right? use "was" instead of "did" . if he answer wrong .it that means that's a common mistake that many people would make.sorry.sorry to you all. I made a mistake. shame on me.
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That gives me the impression that those two men are from somewhere on the countryside, and thus not well educated. I have to say this because it's a mistake commonly made only among those uneducated churls (it's like this conversation: "You gone to Tom this morning?" "No I ain't")
The corrected form of that conversation would be: "You said you had SEEN him this morning?" "Yes, I DID"
To answer your question, "did" refers to the action of having seen him, so you should use "did" in this case.
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chuenk,
Ian is correct. The actual script is different. It was hard for me to imagine that anyone could write such bad dialogue for a popular television series.
Here is the actual script.
Hey...I heard you were asking Patterson about Bellick. Said you thought you saw him this morning?
Yeah. I was. No, it was yesterday. That's when I saw him.
You sure?
Yeah
The response "Yeah. I was." refers to the statement "I heard you were asking Patterson about Bellick".
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It's inside a prison. The people there are guilty of bad grammar.
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There is no shame in making mistakes. In fact, the more mistakes you make the faster you will learn. Each mistake is an opportuninty for learning.
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yes,ian .season 1,20. about the middle of the movie.a prisoner say it. I hope I didn't make mistakes.
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