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- 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?
- 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
- 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 "
- pronouns - When to use shes (short form) and and she is (full form . . .
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
- 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
- He looked the same “as she” or “as her”? [duplicate]
If the pronoun is seen as a clause reduced to a single element, the choice depends on style In formal style, it appears as the nominative "she", as in the unreduced clause "He looked the same as she looked" But informal style has accusative "me" (though the verb cannot be added) You could avoid the choice altogether by retaining a verb: "He looked the same as she did does" An alternative
- british english - Shes not been_____ or She hasnt been . . .
2 She’s can be a contraction for “she is” or “she has ” Thus, both are grammatically correct As for British usage, Oxford seems to hold that she’s is also a contraction for “she is” and “she has,” so I’d imagine it’s the same in both British and American usage
- 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"?
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