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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Contraction

Is there a contration for "there are"?

My students and I were trying to find an instance of its use or a rule to support it.

Thanks,

Poiette McGill Bromell

English Teacher

Mullins High School

Mullins, SC

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Hi Poiette, You could write "there're" but it would sound like "there-err" which is not very different from "there are" so there's not much point. Usually a contraction will shorten the sound. " So could you write it?

— BarbaraPA

  • Hi Poiette, You could write "there're" but it would sound like "there-err" which is not very different from "there are" so there's not much point.
  • Usually a contraction will shorten the sound.
  • " So could you write it?
  • Sure, but when you say it in the middle of a sentence, it may be hard to tell you that you changed anything.
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Hi Poiette,

You could write "there're" but it would sound like "there-err" which is not very different from "there are" so there's not much point. Usually a contraction will shorten the sound. The two-syllable "you will" becomes the one-syllable "you'll" or the clearly two-word "was not" becomes the two-syllable but still shorter "wuzzint."

So could you write it? Sure, but when
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