This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Certain Old English verbs may undergo contraction when negated, and it has been proposed that in verse the use of contracted rather than ...

Sometimes we contract groups of words to make them shorter and to make the sentence more efficient. For example 'I am' becomes 'I'm'. They can help us speak a bit faster and more fluently. Conditional ...

A new study reveals that in a number of varieties of English spoken in Scotland, the rules of contraction (it's for it is) seem to differ unexpectedly, and asserts that such differences may shed new ...

The following report presents some of the findings of several years' research on the relations between standard English and the non-standard English used by Negro speakers in various urban ghetto ...