The effect of analogy is obvious in the following examples.
| I suggests | (T. T. T. 159). |
| I answers | (» 170). |
| They sits | (» 125). |
| I comes | (» 126). |
| You comes | (» 125). |
| I says | (» 133). |
| I asks | (» 143). |
| I likes | (Sketches 194). |
| I thinks | (» 201). |
| I does | (Sketches 194). |
| She don’t | (» 194). |
| ’E don’t | (» 199). |
| Things as gets lost | (T. T. T. 195). |
| They wasn’t | (» 136). |
| There’s no wages | (» 228). |
| It don’t | (» 251). |
| One don’t | (» 218). |
| It aren’t | (Novel Notes 163). |
Past.
| I see = I saw | (T. T. T. 197). |
| » » | (Three Men In A Boat 81). |
(The common anomalous form I seed is not to be found in Jerome.)
| I give = I gave | (Sketches 201). |
| I gived = » | (Novel Notes 155). |
| I win = I won | (Tommy And Co. 99). |
| I comed = I came | (Woodb. Farm 56). |
Perfect Participle.
| Took = taken | (T. T. T. 197 + 201 + 140). |
| writ = written | (» 158). |
Present Participle.