Standard English

Example Sentences

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Standard English punctuation is still alive and well; in the online world, nonstandard punctuation is alive and well.…

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2015

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

But in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the all-conquering Standard English spread like a mighty spring-tide over England and found no check to its progress till the Cheviots were reached.

From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Moorman, Frederic William