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Message board > Student: ´I ´m finished ´/ ´I ´ve finished ´
Student: ´I ´m finished ´/ ´I ´ve finished ´
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Nina Pizzo
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Almaz, I can acknowledge everything you say, but "...a wee bit silly"?
Assertiveness is a particular mode of communication. Dorland´s Medical Dictionary defines assertiveness as: a form of behavior characterized by a confident declaration or affirmation of a statement without need of proof; this affirms the person´s rights or point of view without either aggressively threatening the rights of another (assuming a position of dominance) or submissively permitting another to ignore or deny one´s rights or point of view
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15 Mar 2012
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almaz
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Thanks for that informative but, alas, completely irrelevant extract from your medical dictionary, Telma. What I ´d be more interested in is seeing the part of Murphy, for example, which states that one construction is ´more correct ´ than the other. I certainly couldn ´t find it there, although I did check Michael Swan who quite happily recommends both usages ("There is not much difference of meaning between am finished and have finished.... The adjective construction is common in an informal style"). And as you no doubt know, ´informal ´ is not synonymous with less correct.
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15 Mar 2012
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