Which of the following sentences are written in dialect? Check the four boxes that apply.

“It was the most thrillingist one that ever was; and so he went on a-bragging.”

“I stood by the duke at the door.”

“He will be deeply obleeged if they will mention it to their friends.”

“We are sold – mighty badly sold.”

“What they wanted was low comedy.”

“These Arkansaw lunkheads couldn’t come up.”

1 answer

The sentences written in dialect are:

  1. “It was the most thrillingist one that ever was; and so he went on a-bragging.”
  2. “He will be deeply obleeged if they will mention it to their friends.”
  3. "We are sold – mighty badly sold."
  4. “These Arkansaw lunkheads couldn’t come up.”

These sentences feature distinctive spelling, grammatical structures, or vocabulary that reflect particular speech patterns or regional dialects.