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Suresh goud Posted 7 years ago
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In question tags, why we use as "Aren't I?" why won't we use "Amn't I?"
  

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" It's a tradition, a convention that we all agree to use. We also use a lot of other combinations that don't make sense and are just used by convention. For example, "are" is supposed to be plural, but we say "you are" even when speaking to one person.

  • " It's a tradition, a convention that we all agree to use.
  • We also use a lot of other combinations that don't make sense and are just used by convention.
  • For example, "are" is supposed to be plural, but we say "you are" even when speaking to one person.
  • For another example, we have "do" and "don't", but we don't have "will" and "willn't".
  • We use "will" and "won't" instead.
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suresh goud In question tags, why we use as "Aren't I?" why won't we use "Amn't I?"

It's a tradition, a convention that we all agree to use.

We also use a lot of other combinations that don't make sense and are just used by convention. For example, "are" is supposed to be plural, but we say "you are" even when speaking to one person. For another exa

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I suppose this is because "amn't I" is hard to pronounce.

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