Sunday, September 24, 2006

I'mma

Most students are familiar with the shortening of 'I am going to' to 'I'm gonna', but did you know that many speakers shorten it even further to 'I'mma'?

So 'I am going to tell him' becomes 'I'mma tell'im'.

As far as I know, this is not in any textbook, but it is becoming widely used. Just another way spoken English is different from written English.

No comments:

Pronoun Quizzes

I have expanded the number of quizzes n pronouns and clumped them together in the index page to make them easier to find. The topics and lin...