2012年5月18日 · I tend to think "it isn't" sounds a little more formal than "it's not", which sounds a bit more colloquial. I don't really have any solid reason for that though, it just sounds/feels that way to me. – Cam Jackson

According, to this usage, you would simply write isn't she as is not she, hasn't she as has not she, and so on. But nowadays, we use statements like: Is she not a fine creature? Has she not parts? Is her beauty not natural... As you can see, now, "not" comes after the subject. For e.g., Isn't he coming? = Is he not coming? Hasn't she done it ...

2016年5月22日 · Isn't this great> is this not great? Note the form with *"Isn't it" no longer a simple contraction of the fuller form (which must be "is he not", and not * is not he.) Similar is the case of almost all other auxiliaries or modals. When it is not inversion, N't form is colloquial or in speech.

2012年12月31日 · Using isn't it? as a general-purpose tag question seems quite common in Asian/Indian English. Standard English makes the verb in the tag match the main verb: "You didn't wait, did you?" There are quite a number of questions in ELU about this sort of tag. –

2015年5月7日 · "Isn't" is a contraction of "is not". "Ain't" is a vernacular expression of "isn't", and although it carries the equivalent meaning, it is not part of Standard English. Share

2014年10月11日 · For #2, I hope the intended answer is "I hope the cake isn't burnt". If the cake were still being baked, two acceptable answers would be "I hope the cake won't burn" or "I hope the cake doesn't burn". But both the original form "I hope the cake won't be burnt" and "I hope the cake isn't burnt" don't make that assumption. –

2019年8月17日 · If it isn't Jack Smith, I will be surprised. But a better explanation is that the omission consists of what the Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (p444) calls an initiator, i.e. a word to preface a statement. In this case this speaker would probably not have said simply: If it isn't Jack Smith! but. Well, if it isn't Jack Smith! or

2014年8月12日 · That much effort isn't quite necessary, isn't always the case, nor is it always possible to parse this way. The it is supposed to refer back to a "fact," but even that's not mostly the case, it's the existential it as far as the speaker's subconscious usage is concerned. –

He's dead, isn't he? (with rising intonation) The second example makes it sound like the speaker is unsure (e.g. if asking about an elderly actor), or perhaps makes the speaker sound worried that the referent of "he" might actually not be dead (e.g. a …

2015年12月4日 · 'Isn't that' is respectively rare in this position, but I'm not sure if it's incorrect. My question is: ...