"Evan, he play ball with his sister" This sentence is a/an _______English.

• A. Standard
• B. Formal
• C. Colloquial
• D. Nonstandard

Answer: (D)

This sentence demonstrates nonstandard grammar, especially in how the subject and verb form and the pronoun are used. In standard English, a third-person singular subject needs the verb to end with -s, so the form should be plays, not play. Also, you wouldn’t normally pair a proper noun with a separate pronoun in that structure; you’d say either “Evan plays ball with his sister” or “He plays ball with his sister.” The comma after the name isn’t typical in standard sentence structure either. Because of these deviations from standard grammar—lack of the -s on the verb and the subject–pronoun combination—the sentence is classified as nonstandard English. A standard version would be: “Evan plays ball with his sister,” or “He plays ball with his sister.”