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- Hey there! Off the top of my head... 1) " It is all of ours" <-- "ours" acts as the possessive pronoun. "this is all our decision." <-- "our" acts as the adjective. Different structure, different parts of speech, and both are acceptable. I'm not a fan of what she's said though. I might have simply said "it's ours"/"it's our decision... All of us".... 2) "Her being an escapee is the point" <-- I'd personally use this. "She is an escapee is the point." <--- in a word: colloquialism. This will be accepted in informal speech, but I definitely wouldn't suggest writing it in any formal text! To be painfully honest, a lot of things that you hear on TV are not "proper" standard English. Watching TV helps you get the speech patterns of native speakers, but it definitely doesn't help you learn grammar for exams.0 votedNovember 7, 20170
- I don't believe there is any basic difference in meaning, but there would be an implied difference based on emphasis. "I think this is not beautiful" is a much stronger opinion than "I don't think this is beautiful". At that point someone might just slide straight into the meaning of "omg this is horrendous-looking"0 votedSeptember 18, 20170
- Does anyone else have this kind of issue with their native language?
"wow, your English is really good for a Jamaican!"
"So what's your official language?".... "No, I mean what did you learn in school?"
This is a pet peeve of mine, especially among my Jamaican peers. We’ve been asked what our official language is ad nauseum. For those of you who originally thought our native language was Spanish, you were close! Jamaica was first colonised by the Spanish between 1494 and 1655, but came under British rule from 1655 until our independence in 1962.
We do have a creole known locally as patois (pronounced pat-wah), which is what our stereotypical accent has been molded from. Patois is mostly a spoken language and is English-based with derivatives of African and European languages, due to the variety of regions represented on the island at the time of its creation. Everyone born on this island in over 300 years is a native English speaker!
Does anyone else have this kind of issue with their native language?
I think it's an issue because potential students don't believe Jamaicans grew up speaking English.
March 8, 201753 - I actually thought that lesson requests were automatically cancelled 24 hours before the requested appointment time, so I always rushed to accept requests as SOON as I got them! I'm sorry you've had such bad experiences with tutors, but I promise there are awesome ones. I'm also grateful to learn that this kind of situation can happen :p0 votedMarch 6, 20170
