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To: RightWhale

Well, if he/she had been shot down here we would have found that it ain't got no utilities.


24 posted on 11/28/2006 12:40:48 PM PST by GrandEagle
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To: GrandEagle

Ain't is from first person singular--am. For third person the correct form is don't. Say I ain't, but say he don't. It don't got utilities. Some might quibble that the third person singular is properly doesn't in which case 'it doesn't got utilities.' Either form is correct, but preference is regional.


36 posted on 11/28/2006 12:46:46 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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