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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Well now to me, the big catch would be this.
Joe, Guy, Dave and Cindy were planning a trip to San Angelo.
Their going to go swimming at the lake.
That would be bad grammar.
If Cindy says let's go et at Western Sky Cafe cause you guys ain't fed me all day.
I would figure Cindy to be a backwoods never been to the city kind of girl.
Not a grammar error.
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Depends. If your first example were a semiliterate character writing the information in a note, say, it could be an authorial choice.
All I'm saying is that a sentence cannot always be taken out of context to decide if something is an error. That's why I don't like the idea of Amazon relying on reader reports alone. I've seen too many instances of people claiming something is wrong when they have no clue--I'm sure there are those who would attempt to correct your second example, failing to understand that the nonstandard usage is deliberate. I am in no way defending authors who mangle the English language out of ignorance.