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LearningNerd wrote:Yes, you should use get in that sentence. And I'd say contractions are acceptable in most situations, unless you're writing a very formal paper for a very picky teacher.A couple corrections, since you asked: "1. Which of the following verbs is correct in these sentences? I...

Yes, you should use get in that sentence. And I'd say contractions are acceptable in most situations, unless you're writing a very formal paper for a very picky teacher.A couple corrections, since you asked: "1. Which of the following verbs is correct in these sentences? I would select get...

ARCHI wrote: 1. Which in the following verbs is correct in these senteces? I would select get because it sounds better. a. Does the library get full on Saturdays? o.k. b. Does the library gets full on Saturdays? 2. Are contractions acceptable in formal or informal speach? a. I can't...

1. Which in the following verbs is correct in these senteces? I would select get because it sounds better. a. Does the library get full on Saturdays? b. Does the library gets full on Saturdays? 2. Are contractions acceptable in formal or informal speach? a. I can't understand this...

Hi again, I gues it's not in the book because Ms. Azar is dealing with basic grammar. Please remember that the contraction she won't is much, much more common than she'll not. Best wishes, Clive

Ruslana has it just right. It's far more common to hear "me too" in informal conversation. But you are correct that strict rules of grammar would have you saying "I am too." (Also, we don't use the contraction "I'm" as a full sentence. I'm happy, I'm looking forward to that, I'm sure of this,...

Paco2004 wrote: CalifJim wrote:"Can not" (two words) is never acceptable when the intent is to negate the modality.Sometimes we English learners from non-English speaking countries have to read historical documents like below. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that...

Thank you, Tam, for the effort you made to try to let me understand this structure. However ... Tam Sadek wrote: Perhaps this example using the Past Perfect/Past Simple will make it clearer. "We arrived late because our plane had been delayed" versus "We arrived late because our plane was...

Jargonaut wrote:Remember that while we call words like "the" and "an" (or "a" in this case as the "n" is dropped when before a vowel sound) articles, they are limiting adjectives. "The" is a contracted form of the demonstrative "that", and "an", or "a", is a contracted form of "one" (from the...