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grammaticality - Is arent I correct grammar? - English Language . . . The NOAD reports that aren't is the contraction of are not, and am not; in the latter case, it is used only in questions Why aren't I being given a pay raise? The Collins English Dictionary says the same, but it says that using aren't as contraction of am not is informal, and chiefly British informal, mainly British (used in interrogative sentences) am not
Is this usage of arent proper English? To start a question with aren't is perfectly acceptable Using the negation in some questions can give to the question a different meaning, and the question could be interpreted as a suggestion Aren't you going inside? — The suggestion is to go inside Didn't you mean to call Frank? - The suggestion is to call Frank
grammar - When do I answer negative questions (e. g. Arent you . . . Japanese and English treat negative questions differently If a question is posed in the form "Aren't you going?" (行きませんか?) In Japanese you can say はい、行きません。 ("Yes, I'm not going ) But in English it's idiomatic to say "No, I'm not going " This is often confusing to Westerners who are learning Japanese if a Japanese person answers はい (hai, or yes) to a
Why aint I and arent I instead of amnt I? The NOAD has a note about using aren't, and amn't: The contraction aren't is used in standard English to mean "am not" in questions, as in "I'm right, aren't I?" Outside of questions, it is incorrect to use aren't to mean "am not" (for example, "I aren't going" is clearly wrong) The nonstandard (although logical) form amn't is restricted to Scottish, Irish, and dialect use
Should this sentence read Isnt there or Arent there, given the . . . Isn't would be correct as you are referring to "a bunch" A good way to remember this is to think about what comes after there If "a" comes after, it's Isn't, but if there is no article, it's Aren't Isn't there a bunch of laws - Aren't there cars in this city? Sorry for the bad example, but you get the idea
I don’t suppose you are coming, [are you arent you]? @ColinFine got it right I don’t suppose you are coming, are you? * I don’t suppose you are coming, aren't you? The second one is ungrammatical The first one is the way it should be That's the answer Here's the reason why that's the answer There are two clauses in the original statement, with two verbs, suppose and come (which both occur with auxiliary verbs, but they're the clausal
Agreement: Isnt or arent - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Complaining about the quality of the flight and the two requisite glasses of chardonnay before takeoff aren't reasons to sound any alarms Here, Grammarly is suggesting I change it to quot;Isn't
If its I am and not I are, why is it I arent instead of I amn . . . In some variants of English (particularly Irish English), amn’t is in fact quite commonly heard In most variants, though, it's not found at all @chaslyfromUK That is not true Aren’t is an accepted contraction of am not Just like there's a difference (in form, if not in meaning) between he’s not and he isn’t, there’s a difference between I’m not and I aren’t
Im right, arent I? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange My dictionary reports that aren't is also an abbreviation for am not, when used in questions Is this use of aren't common? If it is common, are there any differences between the different English