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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 "
- 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 – Kate Bunting Commented Nov 8, 2019 at 9:09 Short form can stand for, say, She's a good student; She's got good memory, (She is
- 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
- 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"?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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"
- parts of speech - her: a determiner or a pronoun? - English Language . . .
The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English says that possessive she is a determiner, whereas Swan's Practical English Usage says that possessive she is both a pronoun and a determiner I am confused Is possessive she both a determiner and a pronoun? or is it only a determiner? If it it both, why does the LDCE define it only as a determiner?
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