Information om | Engelska ordet N'T

Exempel på hur man kan använda N'T i en mening

• A common variation in an amphibrachic line, in both Russian and English, is to end the line with an iamb, as Thomas Hardy does in "The Ruined Maid" (1901): "Oh did n't / you know I'd / been ru in'd / said she".
• Although can't, wouldn't and other forms ending n't clearly started as contractions, n't is now neither a contraction (a cliticized form) nor part of one but instead a negative inflectional suffix.
• Negation of verbs usually takes place with the addition of the particle not (or its shortened form n't) to an auxiliary or copular verb, with do-support being used if there is otherwise no auxiliary.
• Zwicky and Pullum have shown that n't is an inflectional suffix, not a clitic or a derivational suffix.
• The lower one was one long room, like a church, with the pulpit at one end, and benches set in rows all the way back, and big doors openin' out on both sides, so 's the gang-planks could be laid right to 'em for the people to get in easy, and the devil would n't have any room to talk about religious folks holdin' theirselves so up and above others.

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