Inglise keele stilistika
g He can't meet you. He's not (he doesn't) feeling so
good today.
In the dialogue, we may come across ungrammatical phrases, such as I, he, we +ain't. I says, I
ain't, times has changed, he done me harm (auxiliary missing). Such examples reflect the
educational level of the speaker, his origin or his excited stage of mind. There are archaic
verbal endings that are used to create the historical background or to make the narrative more
elevated. E.g you lives, knowest, he, she, entereth, knoweth. Past tense: hadst, didst.
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Expressiveness of word-building
Words may become expressive due to their more morphological structure. Together with the
adjectives, this suffix may produce words e.g brown-brownish, that denote a small degree of
some quality. Also the suffix may form tactful words that are not found in dictionaries, if the
speaker doesn't wish sound too categorical. E
annaabi.ee 
