GoesStation
No Longer With Us (RIP)
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2015
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- American English
- Home Country
- United States
- Current Location
- United States
That's a transcription of spoken English, which is inevitably more relaxed than most written English. You shouldn't take spoken English as representative of correct written English.Here is an example from an Australian website:
Senator SCHACHT —When the Small Business Forum have a meeting and make a recommendation that they think would be useful to develop small business in Australia ….
The guy is a NATIVE speaker of English. This must be correct English.
This is really a gray area, as I suggested above. But the more I look at it, the more I think it's acceptable in many contexts.Can it be possible that some native speakers are just not familiar with this usage because they haven't had experience with it?