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This's his best known track. Does this sound natural?
This's his best known track. Does this sound natural?
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7 Dec 2015
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Natural
It sounds natural. Spoken it's good. But this is not how we would write it. No contraction for this is. Write it out. (The contraction 's next to 'this' would be pronounced /iz/ so the difference is indistinguishable to the ear, though. This is probably why we don't have this contraction)
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Natural
It sounds natural. Spoken it's good. But this is not how we would write it. No contraction for this is. Write it out. (The contraction 's next to 'this' would be pronounced /iz/ so the difference is indistinguishable to the ear, though. This is probably why we don't have this contraction)
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@castille: thank you very much! This is very helpful. ^^
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