In Contractions^x

Hiya, Here's a British English perspective!! 1. I would have helped you to move the piano. The context for the above is that they did not ask my help when they moved the piano. So the above sentence is fine. The moving took place yesterday. Today I could tell them the above sentence. ...

"I am not understanding" isn't wrong, it's just uncommon and awkward. "I am understanding" is present continuous and "I don't understand" is simple present. In some contexts "I am not understanding" could be more correct than "I don't understand" as the latter implies a lack of capability in...

The It's vs. Its page If you're confused by these two little words, you've come to the right place. It's is a contraction for it is or it has. Its is a possessive pronoun meaning, more or less, of it or belonging to it. And there is absolutely, positively, no such word as its'. A...

English used to have many regional dialects, and the use of "he does" instead of "he do" was not universal. Also, to pronounce "is" as "ais" and so to get "he ain't" as a contraction of "he aisn't" was a matter of dialect. You also sometimes see amn't. In Jamaican or US "ebonics," even today...

To let means to "allow". Let him in. = Allow him to come in. The word "let's" means "let us" The first comes with the pronoun "us". The second does not come with the pronoun "us". She lets contraction so no apostrophy is used. She lets me paint. = She allows me to paint. She...

I never heard of a verb "lets", ntran, your friend was right: The correct form here is "Let's" (the contraction of "let+us"), the imperative. The missing apostrophe in "lets" (wherever this occurs) is definitely either a typing mistake or it wasn't used just out of lazyness.

All, Please correct/verify if I am using this sentence grammatically wrong. I wrote an email to all team members. The conclusion of the email ended with a command to tell everyone to win, "Lets win all games this week." Because there is a hidden subject, "everyone", the sentence is...

~girding on my armour~ I'm coming to rescue my mother tongue from the evils of translation engines!! ~chuckle~ I've never liked those translation programs, and I see I have good reasons for it! "Hola a todos; mi español es muy pobre, sé lo que nnecesito escribir en mi propio idioma pero no...

Apart from this being a deeply sinister post (have the animal welfare people been informed? ), the use of "it's" is wrong. "It's" is ALWAYS a contraction of: "It is", never a possessive pronoun.

Maybe I could correct your last post if you don't mind? I would say the following (look at the contractions in brackets, you could use either the longer version or the shorter contractions) I did not (didn't) know the rules and I apologize for the hassle... Do not (Don't) worry, I will...