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- Where is she? or Where is she at? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The " at " is redundant It is not needed because the questions could be more concisely put as " Where is she he?" This redundancy, and the efforts of seventeenth and eighteenth century grammarians to align English with Latin, lead some people to say it is ungrammatical to end with " at "
- Why does the contraction shes mean she is or she has?
So as grammarians do you think the contracted form of she has should be she 's? More importantly, are there rules for contracting words? Say, if I wanted to express She was as a contraction could it also be she 's or she's: She's* tired *Although is and was are both be verbs, both have tenses relating to different time periods - the present and
- When to use shes (short form) and and she is (full form)? What is . . .
The difference is that she's and similar shortened forms are used in colloquial speech, but not in certain cases In your example, she is being emphasised
- Which is correct: This is her or This is she? [duplicate]
Upon answering the telephone, the person calling asks if Joan is available If Joan is the person who answered the phone, should she say "This is her" or "This is she"?
- When is it appropriate or disrespectful to refer to someone as she?
My boss has asked me not to refer to her as she because she says it's disrespectful After I refer to her by her proper name or by her title, isn't it appropriate to refer to her as she?
- It was he . . . It was him [duplicate] - English Language Usage Stack . . .
It was he who messed up everything It was him who messed up everything What is the difference between these two sentences?
- Is it quit or quitted? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job (She has quitted her job ) She quit her job (She has quit her
- Different pronunciations of shes depending on the meaning
Possibly the difference is cadence When words are emphasized, the emphasis is some difference in any or all of: volume, pitch, duration, and shape So when she's is unemphasized there is a small difference in the sound of it If we tend to emphasize "she has" more than we emphasize "she is", then that might be reflected in the pronunciation of the contraction
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