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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 "
- 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"?
- etymology - Can we say that he and she are cognates? - English . . .
Are he and she cognate? The text you copied from etymonline says that he derives from Old English he, which derives originally from a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root * ki—, whereas she derives from the feminine form sio of Old English se meaning "the" or "that", which according to the OED derives from a reconstructed P I E root * so–
- Why does the contraction shes mean she is or 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
- word usage - Reason for the current trend to use «she» as the gender . . .
Taken from the Free Online Dictionary: Usage Note: Using she as a generic or gender-neutral singular pronoun is more common than might be expected, given the continuing debate regarding the parallel use of he In a 1989 article from the Los Angeles Times, for instance, writer Dan Sullivan notes, "What's wrong with reinventing the wheel?
- 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
- Using the pronouns he and she for animals
In general, when gender is not known, modern grammar textbooks and style guides advise the use of he she for adult humans and older children, and it when referring to very small children or animals When gender is known, we should use 'he' or 'she' as applicable, and this is now extended to even the smallest children
- pronouns - Referring to objects as she - English Language Usage . . .
Sometimes people are referring to mechanical objects as "she": I love my car She always gets the best service Are there any rules when it is appropriate to use "she" instead of it, and is "he"
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