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Discover LudwigThe phrase "standard English" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a type of English that is considered to be the most accepted and widely used in terms of grammar, spelling, and pronunciation. For example, "My school teaches standard English, so I'm learning how to write formally and correctly."
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standard English
proper noun
The form of the English language widely accepted as the usual correct form.
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It's not standard English.
I was trying to speak standard English.
He wrote in black vernacular and in standard English.
He abandoned, briefly, his normal pidgin and spoke standard English.
"It is therefore important to speak and write standard English".
I was thinking in standard English but speaking another language.
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The Standard, previously called East African Standard, English-language daily newspaper published in Nairobi, Kenya.
They're sort of bog-standard English.
This caused the business English spoken in Canton to diverge increasingly from more-standard English varieties.
The instances may contain non-standard English expressions.
The extracts may contain non-standard English expressions.
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