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Tense and aspect[edit]
Although AAVE does not necessarily feature the preterite marker of other English varieties (that is, the -ed of worked), it does feature an optional tense system with four past and two future tenses or (because they indicate tense in degrees) phases.[45]
^a Syntactically, I bought it is grammatical, but done (always unstressed) is used to emphasize the completed nature of the action.[47]
As phase auxiliary verbs, been and done must occur as the first auxiliary; when they occur as the second, they carry additional aspects:[46]
He been done work means "he finished work a long time ago".
He done been work means "until recently, he worked over a long period of time".
The others seem like a white person trying hard to sound "black".
