Example 14-11

It was a nurse and a nurse's aid used to stand up at the door.
It
expl
was
was
a
a
nurse
nurse
and
and
a
a
nurse's
nurse's
aid
aid
used
used
to
to
stand
stand
up
up
at
at
the
the
door.
door
There was a nurse and a nurse's aid who used to stand up at the door.
Comment:
African American English has contact relatives, in which relative clauses are not introduced by a relative pronoun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Green 2002: 90