Mxsmanic,

The AIM and glossary do not provide sentences, only sentence fragments (with
rare exceptions).

Read them (again)!

If the foreigner can understand English, he can understand "non-standard"
phrases.

He is not required to understand general English, he is required to understand
aviation English and standard phraseology. There's a reason common language
questions are a no-no in radio work. Even you can figure it out.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)