Negative of the verb To Be

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Negative of the verb To Be

lynnden

Negative of the verb To Be

I have a student who does an exercise every week at home out of the following book.

English Grammar in Use Edition 4

Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.

This week I saw the following sentence:

"You ´ve been invited to a party. You ´re not very excited about it!"

I always understood that nowadays it should be ´you aren ´t ´ which is what is taught in schools. I would welcome any comments please.

Thank you.

10 Oct 2015

cunliffe

I haven ´t been watching out for this, but I would say that both are used equally and certainly both are acceptable. Same with ´he isn ´t/he ´s not ´ and so on...

10 Oct 2015

yanogator

I agree with Lynne. Both are common and correct.

Bruce

10 Oct 2015