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Jun 12, 2007 at 8:05am
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Re: Contractions
When writing in the first person by an informal narrator I always use them. Otherwise I try to avoid contractions unless they sound stilted.

You may have noticed that not using contractions in dialogue is often a good way to present a non-native English speaker.

Marcia

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