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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Correct use of contractions

Hi,everybody

I have a doubt about this sentence.Can I write
I´ve a beautiful house or is it neccesary to write I have a beautiful house.Is the first sentence grammatically correct?
Is it possible to use this contraction in this short sentece or is it neccesary to add a complement in order to use it?
Thanks in advance
  

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Anonymous Is the first sentence grammatically correct? It is not used in AmE at least. Anonymous is it neccesary to add a complement Please explain with an example.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Is the first sentence grammatically correct?
  • It is not used in AmE at least.
  • Anonymous is it neccesary to add a complement Please explain with an example.
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AnonymousIs the first sentence grammatically correct?
It is not used in AmE at least.
Anonymous is it neccesary to add a complement
Please explain with an example.
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AnonymousIs it possible to use this contraction in this short sentence or is it necessary to add a complement in order to use it?
You can't use it by itself at the end of sentence, as shown below, if that's what you're asking.

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AnonymousI´ve a beautiful house
To me this is OK. It's not the most usual way I would say it though.

(However, you used the wrong character for the apostrophe. You typed an acute accent instead.)
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