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Example 20-87
My too muchee fear makee rain.
My
1sg
too
too
muchee
much
fear
fear
makee
make
rain.
rain
I'm afraid it is going to rain.
Comment:
This example is from the CPE2 corpus (Baker 2003b). The translation is provided in the corpus.
Type:
naturalistic written
Source:
Darwent n.d [1905]
: iii
Language:
Chinese Pidgin English
by
Michelle Li
and
Stephen Matthews
cite
Datapoints:
Raining constructions: Rains
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