2019年11月8日 · I don't think it would ever be proper to end a sentence with "she's" (see the link @JR posted as a comment to your question for a detailed explanation). Other than that, the contraction can be used interchangeably. Good to note though that contractions are generally more informal/colloquial. So maybe you would say to you friend "She's my ...

2011年6月4日 · 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?

2010年9月18日 · Regarding the usage of "he" in place of "she", this is possible as a backlash against the typical "she" usage: (by a woman) I love my car. He always gets the best service. This isn't really "common", per se, and really only serves as a Take That against men's use of an inanimate she. Another borderline exception is the Judeo-Christian God: God ...

When referring to google ngram, I get 3 possible combinations of she's: She 's She's 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.

2020年9月12日 · 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 ".

What is the correct (grammatical) simple past and past participle form of the verb quit? Is it quit or quitted? She quitted her job. (She has quitted her job.) She quit her job. (She has quit her...

2011年6月28日 · That's what she said seems to be a simplification of the phrase said the actress to the bishop, used with similar implications. The phrase dates back to at least 1928, according to the Wikipedia article , as it was a common saying of the character Simon Templar of "The Saint" mystery novels, the first of which was published in that year.

Thus, "She does have a car" might validly be used in various contexts. For example. surprise the speaker didn't previously realise she had a car, and he's just seen her drive past. exasperation "We can't expect her to walk all the way to our house". "She does have a car!" refutation "She lost everything in the flood". "Not quite - she does have ...

In the final analysis, the best answer will depend on your audience. If they are in their 60s or older, I'd avoid the use of anything other than "he or she." If they are younger, he or she still allows you to avoid the issue. And I cannot say that they is wrong, despite the fact that hearing it pains my aged ears.

According, to this usage, you would simply write isn't she as is not she, hasn't she as has not she, and so on. But nowadays, we use statements like: Is she not a fine creature? Has she not parts? Is her beauty not natural... As you can see, now, "not" comes after the subject. For e.g., Isn't he coming? = Is he not coming? Hasn't she done it ...