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- Why does the contraction shes mean she is or she has?
When referring to google ngram, I get 3 possible combinations of she's: She 's She's She has So my question is should she has be contracted as she 's in the above example like in the examples found from google ngram to avoid confusion? Google ngram hasn't been exactly consistent about this, sometimes using she 's to refer to she is and she has
- Different pronunciations of shes depending on the meaning
I've always thought that she's is pronounced with a long [i:] only when it's used emphatically, regardless of its meaning For example, 1 She's not coming with us (she is, [i]) 2 She's been doing well (she has, [i]) 3 She's the one who stole your keys (she is, emphatic, [i:]) 4 I don't have your keys She's got them (she has, emphatic, [i:])
- Agree on vs. agree with vs. agree to - English Language Usage . . .
You use "agree to" to imply that a request was made and that the person towards whom the request was directed responded positively to that request -- i e , he she agreed to do whatever the requester was asking him to do Example: "She agreed to be my prom date " (There are other, more slang and common phrasings to talk about proms, though )
- parts of speech - her: a determiner or a pronoun? - English Language . . .
Possessive form of 'she': This is her pen; She is her mother Object form of 'she': Give it to her; I know her For simplicity, please let me refer to the first form of her as possessive she and the second form of she as object she The object she is surely a pronoun But the case of possessive she is confusing
- When do we use “had had” and “have had”? [duplicate]
I am hiring her because she has {had experience} painting houses I am hiring her because she has {fulfilled experience} painting houses I am hiring her because she has {had painted houses} before I hired her because she did {have familiarity} programming in C# I hired her because she {fulfilled familiarity} programming in C#
- pronouns - Referring to objects as she - English Language Usage . . .
Regarding the usage of "he" in place of "she", this is possible as a backlash against the typical "she" usage: (by a woman) I love my car He always gets the best service This isn't really "common", per se, and really only serves as a Take That against men's use of an inanimate she Another borderline exception is the Judeo-Christian God: God
- Difference between does have and has [duplicate]
Thus, "She does have a car" might validly be used in various contexts For example surprise the speaker didn't previously realise she had a car, and he's just seen her drive past exasperation "We can't expect her to walk all the way to our house" "She does have a car!" refutation "She lost everything in the flood" "Not quite - she does have
- Which is correct: This is her or This is she? [duplicate]
For "it is she" pleads that this is probably closer to historical usage, when the ancestor of modern English still had cases, which were most probably applied as in "it is she" Note that "illa id est" is probably not the way Romans would write it; they'd rather write simply "illa est"
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