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Joe2012 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Regarding a colloquial.
"Ain't" is a colloquial which has many meanings, among one of them is "am not ". My question is regarding one of it meaning, "am not", and its usage. Though I'm find it tough how to explain my problem/question but I'll give my best shot. Hope you will understand it.
So my question is: does the colloquial "ain't" ,whose one meaning is "am not", also contains pronoun I with it, like in this way "I am not"? Or it is just "am not"? I'm asking this because if the colloquial "ain't" means just "am not" then doesn't the colloquial need pronoun "I" as it suffix for proper meaning and usage? I want to be sure about it otherwise I can by mistake use the colloquial "ain't" to subsititute "I am not" thinking that it also has I with it. So please tell does the colloquial "ain't" need the pronoun I as its suffic before its usage? I intend to use the colloquial somewhere because of lack of space, like this: "But ain't too about it" or should it be like "But I ain't too sure about it" ?
Thanks and regards
So my question is: does the colloquial "ain't" ,whose one meaning is "am not", also contains pronoun I with it, like in this way "I am not"? Or it is just "am not"? I'm asking this because if the colloquial "ain't" means just "am not" then doesn't the colloquial need pronoun "I" as it suffix for proper meaning and usage? I want to be sure about it otherwise I can by mistake use the colloquial "ain't" to subsititute "I am not" thinking that it also has I with it. So please tell does the colloquial "ain't" need the pronoun I as its suffic before its usage? I intend to use the colloquial somewhere because of lack of space, like this: "But ain't too about it" or should it be like "But I ain't too sure about it" ?
Thanks and regards
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Hi, When speaking in the first peson, ain't is a short form of ' I am not'. Some of us live our lives without using ain't . Why don't you just I'm not ?
- Hi, When speaking in the first peson, ain't is a short form of ' I am not'.
- Some of us live our lives without using ain't .
- Why don't you just I'm not ?
- Clive
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Hi,
When speaking in the first peson, ain't is a short form of 'I am not'.
Some of us live our lives without using ain't.
Why don't you just I'm not?
Clive
When speaking in the first peson, ain't is a short form of 'I am not'.
Some of us live our lives without using ain't.
Why don't you just I'm not?
Clive
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CliveWhen speaking in the first peson, ain't is a short form of 'I am not'.Thanks, that's what I'm looking for. Thanks for clarifying it. A lot of dictionaries on the websites were telling it means "am not" so I was confused. Google was not helping much.
CliveSome of us live our lives without using ain't.
Why don't you just
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I don't want to sound like an English purist saying you must always write with perfect grammar, but ...
"I ain't sure" is just as long as "I'm not sure."
My students use slang all the time, but it often sounds really strange because they aren't consistent. They fill their writing homework with expressions like 'I wanna' and 'I'm gonna'. It's fine if the rest of your language is the same
"I ain't sure" is just as long as "I'm not sure."
My students use slang all the time, but it often sounds really strange because they aren't consistent. They fill their writing homework with expressions like 'I wanna' and 'I'm gonna'. It's fine if the rest of your language is the same
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I've got to disagree with what Clive seems to be suggesting here -- I would no more except to see the verb "ain't " without a subject pronoun than any other verb. A person could omit the subject, just as they could say "Won't" or "Can't" instead of "I won't" or "I can't," but that's not a characteristic of the word "ain't" itself. In my mind, "ain't" is short for "am/is/are not" and needs a s
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