Sentence examples for nonstandard from inspiring English sources

The word 'nonstandard' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe something that is not usual, typical, or accepted as normal. For example, "The school has a nonstandard approach to teaching foreign languages."

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nonstandard

noun

Something that is not standard.

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But people can easily use dialect and nonstandard forms in casual speech, and flip to Standard English when the situation requires.

Rather than teaching this flipping as a skill, too many teachers find it simpler to attack nonstandard speech as simply "wrong".

Kids who go beyond accent and use dialectal or nonstandard forms ain't, gizzit, nowt double negatives are politely told with the best wishes that Standard English is crucial to climbing the economic ladder.

Of course, M must be nonstandard.

He says (1993, 112), "There is no absolute factual sense in the term 'slow.' If we estimate 'slow' relative to a moving frame K′, then slow-clock-transport will pick out standard synchrony in K′, but this …corresponds to nonstandard synchrony in K".

Sterelny et al. (1996) propose to extend the replicator to include nonstandard entities: "the set of developmental resources that are adapted from the transmission of similarity across the generations" (Sterelny 2001a: 338).

Later exponents of nonstandard analysis observed that the constant reference to the model theory made the exposition less elementary than it could be; they had the idea of working in a set theory which was inherently "nonstandard".

The Prolongation Axiom has a role similar to that of the Standardization Axiom in the "nonstandard" set theory IST above.

A model of the alternative set theory in the usual set theory is a nonstandard model of Vω of size ω1 in which every countable external function extends to a function in the model.

In an expression such as plur child), both the plur operator, which transforms a predicate into another predicate, and the resulting collective predicate, are of nonstandard types.

An expressivist semantics requires a one-one mapping of non-synonymous sentences to states of mind, but insofar as fictionalism doesn't require a nonstandard semantics it may be able to get away with a looser connection between the mental states and the sentences that express them.

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