Read the sentence one at a time. Decide if the sentence is an acceptable Pidgin sentence or not. Check OK or Not OK to indicate whether the sentence would be spoken by a Pidgin speaker.

1. *Waikiki Beach not get too much sand nowadays.
   'There isn't much sand at Waikiki Beach nowadays.'

     OK   Not OK

   Changes: Waikiki Beach no mo too much sand nowadays.

   The equivalent form of English 'there isn't' is Pidgin no mo. Not is wrong because all present tense verb forms require no before them. 'Not' can only appear before future tense marker gon. Some people may suggest using no get, but this leads to different meanings. No get is the imperative form, meaning something like 'don't,' so this sentence would literally be Waikiki Beach don't too much sand nowadays. Use of no get could also mean that the sand is no longer coming to shore (rather than describing the current state of the beach, which is what is intended).

2. My fadda wen stay go wen I pau hana.
   'My father had already left when I finished working.'

     OK   Not OK

   Changes: none

   If wen is deleted, then the sentence means 'My father is leaving...' If stay is deleted, then it means 'My father left...'

3. He no wen like go Vegas this year.
   'He didn't want to go to Vegas this year.'

     OK   Not OK

   Changes: none

   Some speakers may want to change no wen like to neva like. This is also correct. No wen is simply a less common and alternative form of past tense. It may exist due to analogy with regular patterns for making past tense in Pidgin that place wen before the verb. The same phenomenon happens in English as well, where two forms of past tense are often heard (e.g., dived and dove).

4. Go stay eat lunch bumbye you goin get hungry.
   'You should eat lunch, otherwise you'll get hungry.'

     OK   Not OK

   Changes: none

   Some people might change Go stay eat to simply Go eat. However, this changes the meaning. Go stay eat carries the idea of 'you should', whereas Go eat is just a command. Bumbye is a connector equivalent to English 'otherwise.'

5. *As no how come he not like go.
   'That's not the reason why he doesn't want to go.'

     OK   Not OK

   Changes: As not how come he no like go.

   Not should be used here because the negation comes before something other than a verb, such as adjectives, nouns and noun phrases. In this case, not comes before a noun phrase, how come he not like go (it's easy to see this as a noun phrase when the whole phrase is substituted with 'the reason'). In Pidgin, no is used only before verbs.