Example sentences for: nonstandard

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

  • A comparison with some other languages, particularly languages with a largely phonetic spelling system--(German, Italian, Spanish)-- shows that this range of nonstandard spellings is an added bonus that our quirky English spelling system has given to the language.

  • Moreover, the fact that Kinsey had a sexual life, however nonstandard it was, would not render him incapable of objectivity in writing about sex.

  • A pattern emerges here: the words that are written with nonstandard spellings are generally short words which carry little essential meaning and which are repeated often enough for readers to become familiar with them.

  • Most of the conventions established for representing nonstandard forms of English are applied to English-based pidgins and creoles when used in literature.

  • Do you think it ironic that there is interest in some of these languages at the same time there is such hostility to other languages and nonstandard dialects?


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