Consider the following:
1. A story in today's edition of The (Rock Hill) Herald quoted a woman as saying: "It came with the picture. I didn't write nothing."
Later, in that same story, the same person says: "I've never had nothing on my record."
2. In a separate story, also appearing in today's edition of The Herald, a five-term S.C. state senator from Charleston rants: "I didn't mean to hurt nobody--nobody."
Both stories touch a sensitive nerve. They're both about accusations of racism.
But notwithstanding those accusations, what's wrong with the above quoted sentences? What big grammatical rule is violated?
Respond to this blog post by clicking on the "Comment" link below. Any grammarians out there in the blogosphere?
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