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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

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.

  • 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

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