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"I should say the first thing of all would be to get garmmar. Your grammar is not particularly good."
He got red. " I know I talk a lot of slang. I know words, picked them up from books, but I cannot say them correctly, so i don't use them."
" It is not what you say, so much as how you say it. You don't mind my saying that, do you? I don't want to hurt you.
" No,no," he cried. " Tell me everything I must know, and I had better hear it from you that from anybody else."
"Well, then, you say 'You was' ; it must be ' You were'. You say ' I seen' for ' I saw'.
" That is clear," said Martin. " I never thought of it before."
"You will find it all in the grammar," she said and went to the bookcase. She took one of the books from the shelf and gave it to Martin.