Proofreading Service - Pain in the English
Proofreading Service - Pain in the English

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24-Hour Proofreading Service—We proofread your Google Docs or Microsoft Word files. We hate grammatical errors with a passion. Learn More

Proofreading Service - Pain in the English
Proofreading Service - Pain in the English

Your Pain Is Our Pleasure

24-Hour Proofreading Service—We proofread your Google Docs or Microsoft Word files. We hate grammatical errors with a passion. Learn More

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September 16, 2012

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Sleep / Asleep

  • September 16, 2012, 7:56am

It's a morphosyntactic feature of African American English. Although to a speaker of Standard American English it appears to be a case of "asleep" vs "sleep", it’s actually the dropping (or the "zeroing") of the “ing” from the present progressive verb form “sleeping.” So, instead of saying “he is sleeping” the speaker says “he is sleep.”