Example sentences for: ebonics

How can you use “ebonics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The resolution asserts that deficiencies in black educational achievement cannot be remedied unless the prevalence of ebonics is recognized and somehow dealt with.

  • First, the word "ebonics," which dates back to the early 1970s and has been used even in some public-school settings without controversy for years, may seem to be putting on airs, but what many linguists prefer to call "Black English Vernacular" or "African-American Vernacular English" is a major linguistic stream that has been flowing within recognizable channels for centuries.

  • But that's not the same as saying ebonics speakers can't do math because they can't speak math.

  • Needless to say, the confrontational language of the Oakland resolution, and the ill-advised statement that ebonics is "genetically based," did nothing to stifle criticism.

  • Someone posted an e-mail response to your morning essay asking whether it's true that ebonics speakers can't do math because their language isn't capable of rendering the subtleties of math.


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