Anonymous Posted 12 years agoVocabulary
I'm done
in the sentence 'I'll close my computer when I'm done. why here is used I'm done and not I have done?
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Anonymous when I'm done We use the verb be instead of the verb have in a few expressions. He is gone. The car isn't there anymore.
— CalifJim
- Anonymous when I'm done We use the verb be instead of the verb have in a few expressions.
- He is gone.
- The car isn't there anymore.
- It's (It is) gone.
- We are finished.
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Anonymouswhen I'm done
We use the verb
be instead of the verb
have in a few expressions.
He is gone.The car isn't there anymore. It's (It is) gone.We are finished. (= We are done.)They were done. (= They were finished.)Thus,
I'm (I am) done.CJ