Contractions are not words to be evaluated as 'proper' or 'improper'. They are merely transcriptions of pronunciations-- attempts to show how pronunciation flows in speech. You can create them yourself, and novelists often do in the dialogue they

) An adjective is a part of speech that modifies a noun or a pronoun. -- OK ) The exam was adjourned since the the professor was ill. ) The government has adjudged that the country's economy is experiencing hard times so the tax rates will be

How "fake" does something have to be to be considered ... stopping just this side of banning all contractions in writing As the man who coined "eye dialect," linguist George P. Krapp, put it, in eye dialect, "the

How "fake" does something have to be to be considered eye dialect? Some 'lists' i've seen online are very zealous, stopping just this side of banning all contractions in writing As the man who coined "eye dialect,"

In my kind of talk, in the sense you mention, ... clearly, a schwa replaces the vowel. "I k'n gowith you". Do you have the "pin"/"pen" merger? (If so, where are you from?) If youdo, your "kin"