Potentially, once again, an example of two peoples separated by a common language

[thismaz]

I've been caught in the past, when ranting about grammar. I've been informed that what I saw as an irritating construction that knocked me out of a story, is actually a perfectly valid construction elsewhere.

So, I'm once again asking, instead of complaining.

Does this read as a valid sentence construction to you?

---- He could imagine a place where he and X were stood, side by side.

or this one -

--- They were sat on the floor.

or this -

--- The stone had sank in the water



Right *looks at clock* I'd better get off to work. Thank you for any thoughts. I'll be back tomorrow morning.

Comments

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

The last one is definitely the US way of saying the past tense (like 'dove' which I would say as 'dived' as in - into water). I thing that maybe the issue as I don't thing the other two are English grammar either.

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

smwright, the only American to comment, so far, says that three is incorrect and she's only seen 1 and 2 in British English. It's true that 1 and 2 can be colloquial British English, but that wasn't the context of my question.
I think this is just incorrect grammar by the writers I have been seeing, who use it. But I seem to be seeing it so often, I began to doubt myself.