Standard English Definition

noun
The variety of English that is generally acknowledged as the model for the speech and writing of educated speakers, especially when contrasted with speech varieties that are limited to or characteristic of a certain region or social group.
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pronoun

(linguistics) The English language as it is spoken and written by educated native users.

Students with a pronounced Midland South dialect are required to take a course teaching them to speak and write in Standard English.
A debate rages on whether or not the singular they constitutes Standard English usage.
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Standard English Sentence Examples

  • These can be poems, prose, essays or plays, written in standard English or Northumbrian dialect.

  • As a scholar he devoted his attention almost entirely to Plato; and his Phaedrus (1868) and Gorgias (1871), with especially valuable introductions, still remain the standard English editions of these two dialogues.

  • The writings which he produced at this period created a new epoch in the history of modern English theological scholarship. In 1855 he published the first edition of his History of the New Testament Canon, which, frequently revised and expanded, became the standard English work upon the subject.

  • Most of the exchange is in Standard English which you could argue shows that the pupils are from a fairly well-to-do background.

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