V4 Use Standard English. (Use dialect in fiction, not in an essay or on a test answer.)
Details	Dialect	Standard English
a) Avoid these nonstandard verb forms.	We brung it. He drug it out. I seen it.	We brought it. He dragged it out. I saw it.
b) Do not confuse them and those.	I really like them fries.	I really like those fries.
	Them are pretty good.	Those are pretty good.
c) Do not use double negatives.	He doesn’t have no lunch today.	He doesn’t have any lunch today.
d) Do not use slang or texting in formal writing.	U be wrong 2 rite like this in a school paper, dawg.	Write without teen slang or chat-room shorthand.
e) Him, me, and her can never do anything.	Him went. Me went. Him and me went.	He went. I went. He and I went.
f) Avoid using “of” between an adjective and its noun.	Do you know anyone who owns that nice of a car?	Do you know anyone who owns a car that nice?
	She doesn’t make such good of chicken.	She doesn’t make very good chicken.
g) Do not double the subject by adding a pronoun.	My cousin Bill he came over.	My cousin Bill came over.