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- 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
- Agree on vs. agree with vs. agree to - English Language Usage . . .
The object is the difference When you agree with someone something, it means you accept the point of someone something I agree with you Matt does not agree with my answer You agree on some issue or point of debate We agreed on this issue You agree to demands queries, or you agree to do something He agreed to my demands He agreed to join me for the movie
- 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?
- 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–
- When do we use “had had” and “have had”? [duplicate]
Referring to a past time of reference, She had never had sex by the time of her 18th birthday, three years ago She had had sex by the time of her 18th birthday, three years ago Another mode of use is its auxiliary use to encapsulate a perfected completed participation e g , have experience, Do you paint houses? Are you familiar with painting
- Whos she, the cats mother? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I'm wondering where the phrase originates Who's 'she', the cat's mother? (idiomatic, somewhat dated, Britain, New England) A rebuke especially directed towards children for having referred to a w
- pronouns - Using her vs. its to refer to a country - English . . .
The pronouns he and she do not refer to sexual genitalia, but to two mutually exclusive classes of animates One does not refer to steers or wethers as “its” any more than one refers to eunuchs and castrati that way
- 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?
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