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  1. Instead of AM and PM (in small caps), p.m. and a.m. -- with lowercase and periods -- are the preferred way to indicate time of day. According to the The Chicago Manual Style used by journalists. Share. Improve this answer.

  2. Apr 27, 2021 · 1 Answer. Sorted by: 1. There is nothing whatsoever strange or ungrammatical about omitting a personal pronoun before 'am', 'are', 'is', etc, to avoid repetition. From the Swansea (Wales, UK) University web site, in the 'Student FAQ section': I am an International Student and am experiencing financial difficulties.

  3. Dec 16, 2011 · This sentence is an example of Conjunction Reduction, the syntactic rule that deletes repeated material in conjoined constituents, for example. Bill washed the dishes and swept the floor. Bill washed and dried the dishes. The relative clause modifying project in the original sentence is the focus, so let's get it out of a subordinate clause and ...

  4. Mar 10, 2014 · Are is used for plural subjects, whereas am is used for singular subjects. Jim, John, and I is a plural subject (3 people), so the correct form is "Jim, John, and I are going somewhere." There's some nuance to this rule. You might say "The king and I are wonderful friends," when you're talking about your lofty connections, but you'd say " The ...

  5. Apr 26, 2015 · This often occurs in rendering a common sequence of words or, as in French, in maintaining a flowing sound. 'I'm' is always used in conjunction with a noun phrase. You cannot write "A boy, I'm", but you can write "A boy, I am". 'I'm' may also be considered informal outside speech or a literary scope. 'I am' is also longer to pronounce, and ...

  6. A contraction is an abbreviation. And I am is invariably stressed, and usually alone, in speech. If it's spoken normally, it's always I'm. So saying I am in a normal sentence is already marking yourself as not a native speaker.

  7. I am on it in your first example sounds like a shortened version of I’m on the case, a colloquial way of saying that the speaker is dealing with it. In the context of some kind of dispute, as in your second example, they’re at it again means that they have started doing again whatever it was that was a component in the dispute.

  8. 5. US usage may differ, but certainly in the UK I've never heard anyone suggest that the honorific "Madam" might give offense due to association with brothels. And the shortened "Ma'am" is considered acceptable when addressing the Queen (only after the first time, when you must say "Your Majesty"), so I'd say that's always okay in speech. But ...

  9. 自从发现AM不怎么刊发金属类的论文后,就对这刊无感了. 后来零零碎碎的看到一些金属大类的文章,感觉金属方向的刊文越来越水. 蹭时代脉动,撇开金属材料这一支,是要放下包袱轻装简行,自然让做金属的觉得这刊有点内味儿. 再有,现在对这种什么分领域 ...

  10. The sentence is awkward and seems to be too truncated, but it is actually has correct usage of the 'being' tenses reflected in both 'am' and 'were'. The distinction reads as, "I am (present reference being) that you were (past reference being). With this distinction, Am, Is, Are, Was, Were, Be, Being, Been can be considered as referential verbs.

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