But in a clause with a contracted structure, none of them will stand, and that is my friend’s argument. Indeed, Cambridge dictionary defines “I’m” as the short form of “I am”, giving examples such as “I’m Frances” and “I’m really sorry”. The dictionary never says, “Am really sorry.”
The Longman dictionary also calls “I’m” the short form of “I am”, with “I’m a student” as one of its examples. For Oxford dictionary, the expression comes under ‘contraction’ category, just as it gives the example: “I’m a busy woman.” In other words, my colleague is right to have challenged Johnson.In spite the above analysis, is Boris Johnson really guilty? He may not be! As a matter of fact, he is not.
“I have no symptoms, but am following the rules and will be working from No. 10 as I continue to lead the government’s pandemic response.” Experts will agree that this is a situation in which ellipsis may have provoked ambiguity as ‘am’ arguably sounds like the mis-contracted form of ‘I’m’. However, it seems Johnson deliberately omits ‘I’ before the ‘am’, having opened the sentence with it, and since the subject refers to the same person. Consider these:I have no symptoms but am following the rule.
The last structure is different from outright using ‘am’ instead of ‘I’m’ when there is no initial reference. In this wise, these are automatically wrong:, there are two other usages we should pay attention to. Because ‘self’ and ‘isolate’ are used as a verb, it instructively carries a hyphen . This is a beautiful lesson in coinages. Also, the PM did not say ‘tested positive to’, an error that some people still commit. The correct preposition with ‘tested positive/negative’ is ‘for’.
The PM is in order, he had earlier used 'I' at the beginning of the sentence.
Shame on punch
There instead their, There instead of they. The language hard oo, It is well.
I stop reciting the Nigerian national anthem long time ago bcos all those so called heroes past are all criminals. Gowon, MKO Abiola, Abacha, IBB, OBJ, Buhari, & so on. The only heroes past is Mary Slessor who stopped the killing of twins in Nigeria EndSARS UKParliamentEndSARS
You people want to act funny right 🙄
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Wahala for people wey no dy read news details. They Just jumped to headline debate and be shouting like lizard with two heads. Hogwash 😏.
Gowon that used half of CBN to japa you won't post it It's rubbish things you post
I promise to follow back I no be Nigerian government wey dy promise and fail
This stupid punch newspapers never update Nigerians about the outcome of the meeting not even about our so call hero Gown that looted half of CBN but are much concern about I’m and am foolish hypocrites
I do not agree with you. The ellipses rule doesn't apply in the situation where the British Prime Minister used 'am' instead of 'I'm'. As a matter of fact, besides making a subject-verb contraction error, he also made an error in parallelism...
No leave English for English man , mumu man.
Wahala dey for won't can't distinguish am from I'm
Is this suppose to be on the news?
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