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[-] homura1650@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Sometimes they end up that way (at which point they stop being contractions). However, there are also cases where distinct syntactic words end up being pronounced as phonetically single words. Or, as my morphology professor put it, "word" is not a meaningful category.

For example, consider the sentence "I'm happy". What is the subject of this sentence? The verb? What part of speach is "I'm"?

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