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Perhaps you mean a careful, educated, adult speaker (by definition, since there's no governing body setting English grammatical rules). The term "native speake
by beojan 8y ago
Perhaps you mean a careful, educated, adult speaker (by definition, since there's no governing body setting English grammatical rules).
The term "native speaker" is ill-defined enough that there's no reason a native speaker can't make grammatical errors in speech. For instance, a child is a native speaker, but children make plenty of grammatical errors. Even adults misuse who / whom and was / were all the time.
- malnourish 8y agoWhom/who was/were are not at all related to English grammar. Your definitions are off.
- beojan 8y agoOf course they are. The first is about picking the correct case (this being one of the few words where English has cases) and the second is picking the right number (you being a special case since the second person is always plural in English). If this isn't grammar, what is?