Which sentence contains an example of dialect? A. "'One at a time, one at a time,' laughed Dr. Livesey." B. "Now, I tell you, Hawkins: if you like, I'll take you along." C. "'Now, then, if Jim is agreeable, we'll open the packet'; and he laid it before him on the table." D. "'Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest,' he cried."
A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists: wingspanney is a dialect of English.
The language used by the people of a specific area, class, district or any other group of people. The term dialect involves the spelling, sounds, grammar and pronunciation used by a particular group of people and it distinguishes them from other people around them. Dialect is a very powerful and common way of characterization, which elaborates the geographic and social background of any character.
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D."Search him, some of you shirking lubber, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest,' he cried." A dialect is a way someone talks specific to a certain area.
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