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I was simply referring to the original sentence.
 

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I understand that it doesn't represent all of grammar but what's the point of having rules if even native speakers don't follow it?
Do all native Russian-speakers always follow the grammatical rules of the Russian language?
 
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Sorry, but my native language is not russian... We used to speak Russian at home but now we've stopped using it completely. I moved to the US at a young age but was never a good student and skipped all of high school and never graduated college. I got into college by having others "help" do my homework for me so I wasn't ready for the UC system and had to drop out. So, I really can't answer that question.
 

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All right — to put it another way: do you imagine that all native speakers of a language always follow the grammatical rules of that language?

I've just read Tdol's remark in this thread:

...speech can be messy, complete with repetition, words missing, grammar errors, etc.
 
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