Saturday, August 25, 2007

Strange Grammar

From no source we can identify, the Lone Star Baby always has and always does form the past tense of verbs by adding "did" to the verb, as in:

I did run.
You did tell me to do that.
Do you remember when I did go to school and I did do that trabajo with the stickers?
Sissy did tell me no!

2 comments:

Saints and Spinners said...

I am reminded of the grammar syntax in Only Opal, the picture book version (ill. by Barbara Cooney) of Opal Whitley's diary. Look for it! I like it.

Lone Star Ma said...

I'll look for it; thanks. I forgot to mention that she doesn't do it with to be verbs - just all the rest.