Standard English
Example Sentences
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His smirking and somewhat subversive accommodation to this Pharisaism is to emphasize the ways in which Black English is more complex than Standard English.
From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017
Remember, for many Americans, Standard English is only used in formal settings—business and school, but not home.
From Slate • Oct. 1, 2014
Grammarians push Standard English at the expense of other forms, he asserts.
From BBC • May 13, 2013
Standard English was all very well for Anglophone societies, but out there in the wider world, a non-native "decaffeinated English", declared Nerriere, was becoming the new global phenomenon.
From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010
Selections from The Faery Queen in Standard English Classics and other school editions.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph
