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 ...

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...

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 ".

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.

No one but she ever made a perfect score on the test. The above sentence is coordinated from the below sentence: No one has ever made a perfect score on the test, but she has made a perfect score on the test. in the same way as "He and she went to the same school" is coordinated from: He went to the same school and she went to the same school.

2020年2月2日 · If all trans people used "he," "she," or "they," simply giving a nomative pronoun would allow the listener to extrapolate all other pronouns. However, some trans people prefer to use Neopronouns, which don't always declinate in a intuitive way, such as e/em/es or thon/thon/thons.

2011年8月23日 · This book on Personal pronouns in present-day English notes:. Pronouns are commonly used to refer familiarly to people present; however, it can be a sign of animosity to refer to someone you know well by a pronoun rather than their name; in the so-called 'Squidgy' tape from late December 1989 Princess Diana consistently refers to Prince Charles as he.

2012年7月6日 · You use "agree to" to imply that a request was made and that the person towards whom the request was directed responded positively to that request -- i.e., he/she agreed to do whatever the requester was asking him to do. Example: "She agreed to be my prom date." (There are other, more slang and common phrasings to talk about proms, though.)