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Is am on the bus correct?
“I am on the bus” is correct if the bus is in motion and “I am in bus” is correct if the bus is not motion. For example, “I am in the bus” at the motor park.
Do we say on the bus or in the bus?
We should use “in the bus” when we are inside the bus and the bus is stationary, and “on the bus” when we are inside the bus and the bus is moving.
Why do the Americans say aluminum?
The American Chemical Society adopted “aluminum” because of how widely it was used by the public, but the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially designated the metal as “aluminium” as recently as 1990.
Why is there a car but on a bus?
Answer: When you get into a car, you’re getting directly into your seat. When you get on to a bus, you are walking on to it, then walking to your seat. Same with a plane, boat and train – you’re able to walk around in the space.
How do British people say good morning?
Bore da
Bore da (bore-eh-dah) – Good Morning. Nos Da – Good Night. Diolch (dee-olch) (“ch” pronounced like gargling water) – Thank you. Dwi ddim yn siarad Cymraeg (dween thim un sharad cumraig) – I don’t speak Welsh.
Why can’t we just say “Am I not” instead of “are I not?
One possibility is that ain’t is to blame. Were we to match our verbs and pronouns correctly, we would say “am I not,” rather than “are I not”; the contracted version of this might be written as either amn’t (which sounds unwieldy to most speakers of US English) or as ain’t.
What is the correct phrase for Am I not?
What to Know Aren’t I is an accepted phrase for “am I not” even though when the conjunction is broken down it appears to be short for “are not I,” which doesn’t agree with standard rules of grammar. One theory is that those who wanted to avoid the phrase ain’t for fear of ridicule opted for “aren’t I” as opposed to “amn’t” or another construction.
What does aren’t I mean?
Aren’t I is an accepted phrase for “am I not” even though when the conjunction is broken down it appears to be short for “are not I,” which doesn’t agree with standard rules of grammar.
Why is the phrase Ain’t used instead of amn’t?
One theory is that those who wanted to avoid the phrase ain’t for fear of ridicule opted for “aren’t I” as opposed to “amn’t” or another construction. What happens when a grammatical mistake that is commonly made by speakers of our language comes to be viewed as “proper” (or at least no longer viewed as a mistake)?