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Pleasehelp Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Who'd, how'd, what'd
Who'd - Who did
What'd - what did
'd is becoming quite a common way of saying did. Is it appropriate tho?
What'd - what did
'd is becoming quite a common way of saying did. Is it appropriate tho?
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Is what appropriate? The way you're spelling the transcription? )
- Is what appropriate?
- The way you're spelling the transcription?
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Is what appropriate? The way you're spelling the transcription? (By the way, who'd can also mean who would.)
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Appropriate to be used as contraction of did.
I looked it up in the dictionary and it's not listed as a proper way of saying did. But I guess english is a constantly changing language.
I looked it up in the dictionary and it's not listed as a proper way of saying did. But I guess english is a constantly changing language.
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Contractions are not words to be evaluated as 'proper' or 'improper'. They are merely transcriptions of pronunciations-- attempts to show how pronunciation flows in speech. You can create them yourself, and novelists often do in the dialogue they write. Out of helpfulness, the dictionaries include a few of them, but any contraction is acceptable if it is understandable, y'know?
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