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- contractions - Does hes mean both he is and he has? - English . . .
He's angry He's been angry But the third one is incorrect You cannot shorten "he has a house" to "he's a house " You can only shorten "he has got a house" to "he's got a house " [Again, note what @Optimal Cynic claims] More examples: Correct: I have an apple Correct: I have got an apple Correct: I've got an apple Incorrect: I've an apple
- What is he? vs Who is he? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"What is he?" asks chiefly for a person's nature, position, or occupation, not his name "He's a cop [as opposed to a soldier or fireman, say]" or "He's the commander of the submarine" or "He [Spock] is a Vulcan "
- Is using he for a gender-neutral third-person correct?
Further discussion including specific arguments against 'purportedly sex-neutral he' and 'she' is found on pp 491-495, noting they are often systematically avoided for good reasons, and marking them with the % sign ('grammatical in some dialect(s) only') It also offers further avoidance strategies, including plural and first-person antecedents
- punctuation - He then vs Then He vs Then, He -- conjunctive . . .
He went to the store Then, he went home If you omit the comma, the sentence is still correct, but the pacing is different: He went to the store Then he went home You can also say: He went to the store and then he went home (no comma) or He went to the store; then he went home (no comma)
- Will be doing vs. will do - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Note that the common African-American dialect has a version of be that works just like this pair for present tense ("he be eating cakes" vs "he is eating cakes") The two forms have the same distinction you mention
- grammaticality - What time vs At what time - English Language . . .
Since the question 'What time did you come?' gives the answer 'I came at one o'clock', grammatically, the preposition 'at' should be in question form
- Is there a synonym analogue to he said, she said that allows a . . .
"He said, she said" has a sense that not only does an interaction look different from the two sides, but of an imbroglio There are a couple of moments I can think of that are "he said, she said" in the sense of two different experienced incidents for the two sides, but not in the sense of a nasty conflict where it is tangled to unravel what
- Correct English: Get sick or fall sick
(For whatever reason ) In the US we say "got sick" and "fell ill" Although, "falling ill" implies that it's just the start of something that's going to turn out to be much more serious and long term - Like: "He got sick with the flu, last week," as opposed to "She fell ill with cancer, as soon as they returned from the trip "
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