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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

contraction words (us)

What are some contractions that are made with the word us?
All I can think of is let's- let us.
  

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Anonymous All I can think of is let's- let us. That's probably the only one.

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  • Anonymous All I can think of is let's- let us.
  • That's probably the only one.
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Anonymous All I can think of is let's- let us.
That's probably the only one.
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Yes, "let's" seems to be the only contraction in English with "us," which is rather surprising to a native speaker - we never think about things like this. The only other one that I can think of - and I'm grasping at straws here - is the non-standard, "country"-type expression, "we uns," as in "We uns don't take to strangers here." This is apparently a contraction of "we and us," which is a redu
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