Where did my Horror go?

[Arryn]

Originally posted by General Tacticus:
Gone is a past participle, not an adjective. As for your second sentence, it is not grammatically correct... I guess English is your native language

This is why English is such a hard language for non-natives to learn. Gone is an adjective. Look it up in the MW Online dictionary. The context makes it a past participle (of the word 'go'). It is 'inconsistencies' such as this that drive people nuts.

And yes, the second sentence I gave is, indeed, poor grammar. But it is very common usage. How many times have you heard a phrase like "My son did what?" or "She went where?" Bad grammar to an English teacher, but normal speech in everyday life.

OTOH, a statement like "Where my horror at?" is only to be heard by children not yet old enough to have gone to school and been taught the rudiments of grammar -- which they tend to forget just a few short years later in their teen years And by those same older kids, and adults, who wish to sound 'cool' by rejecting the manners of society, in this case language, and using a slang dialect that attempts to exclude those that wouldn't be caught sounding that stupid. {yes, I hate rap-crap music, too}