Habitual be

Use of an uninflected be in certain varieties of English

Habitual be, also called invariant be, is the use of an uninflected be in African-American English (AAE), Caribbean English and Hiberno-English to mark habitual or extended actions in place of the Standard English inflected forms of be, such as is and are. In AAE, use of be indicates that a subject repeatedly does an action or embodies a trait. In General American English, however, the use of be means only that an individual has done an action in a particular tense, such as in the statement "She was singing".

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