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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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7. Is English your second language?
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 08:49 AM
Jun 2014

The only 'non-English' in my sentence was the abbreviation 'SYG' for 'Stand Your Ground'.

To restate it in ways you might understand, 'He' refers to the antecedent in your original post, 'Dog the bounty Hunter'. The 's on the end is what we call a 'contraction' in English, which takes the the word 'is' and shortens it down to 's and attaches it to the end of the noun before it.

'worried' means that Dog is afraid, fearful, or anxious.

'somebody' refers to the various people who have committed criminal acts that he hunts down for his bounty hunting business.

'shoot him' means to use a gun (firearm) to fire a bullet into him (him being Dog the Bounty Hunter again)


'get away with it' means that the person doing the shooting will not be convicted of having shot and or killed him in the legal system.

'thanks to SYG' means that the prior clause (getting away with it) will occur as a result of the aforementioned shooter's use of 'Stand Your Ground' as a legal defense for the shooting.

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