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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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gotta gonna wanna

hello i'am Emre from Belgium. I am just a begginer to learing english. i'd like to learn what's meaning of gotta gonna and wanna
  

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" They should be avoided in serious writing. Use the full forms instead.

  • " They should be avoided in serious writing.
  • Use the full forms instead.
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"Gotta," "gonna," and "wanna" are informal representations of "[have] got to/got a," "going to," and "want to/want a." They should be avoided in serious writing. Use the full forms instead.
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Anonymous hello i'am Emre from Belgium. I am just a begginer to learing english. i'd like to learn what's meaning of gotta gonna and wanna
You could find out from a dictionary. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/gotta
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ozzourtiThey should be avoided in serious writing.
I'd say they should be avoided in any writing. Seeing used them in an English Forums post, for instance, immediately lowers my opinion of the poster. The English learner should be able to understand these, but (in my opinion) there is no good reason to try to use them in writing. (They're okay in inf
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These forms are extremely common in spoken AmE, and are also found in very informal writing. The American Heritage Dictionary labels them ‘informal’ rather than ‘non-standard’.

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