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My wife and I were frightened, confused and intimidated.
As if I were frightened it will move.
If a speaker of lesser education or articulacy says "I were frightened" or "we was relieved" – or, malapropistically, refers to the "penile" rather than "penal" system – a writer has to decide whether to play the invisible English teacher or to follow a traditional journalistic practice of following misspeakings with the patronising suffix "[sic]".
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I am frightened - I am frightened of everybody now".
I am frightened.
"I'm frightened.
"And I was frightened!
— Because I'm frightened.
Really, I'm frightened.
I was frightened," she said.
I admit I was frightened.
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