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Description: | Sam recalls one night when he and some friends were caught poaching hares.
lexis
runner = person who rounds up hares at night for shooting; any road = anyway; mysen = myself
phonology
H-dropping; definite article + V ® [D] (the other [DUD@] and the end [DEnd])
PRICE [A:I]; STRUT [U]; MOUTH [{:]
note also right [r/EIt], cartload [ka:tlOUd], close to me [klQs tU mI], after [aft@], us [@z], makes [mEks] and never [nIv@]
grammar
zero auxiliary (I _ been runner)
zero definite article (I been _ runner; _ old hare goes in the tunnel)
verbal inflection with I (I goes right round; I makes my ways to these other fellahs what had guns); with plural pronoun (we gets; we makes our way to the bridge)
preterite run (I run these old hares all into them)
third person plural was (“bang, bang, bang, bang!” they was going at the other end)
third person plural is (these big fellahs is coming up on us)
relative pronoun ® what (I makes my ways to these other fellahs what had guns)
there is + plural complement (there’s three fellahs)
adjective as adverb (they shot random) | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | University of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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