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
Just now she sat blushing deeply and crushing in her hand a note which had appeared mysteriously between the pages of her Selections from the Standard English Poets.
From The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door by Frey, Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude)
