Re: It's vs. it is

>Someone brought up the fact that it's okay to say "It's a frog", but not
okay to say things of the nature of *"I don't know where it's".  I thought
about this a little.. it seems that there's some fine distinction between
the contraction and the phrase, that I'm at a total loss to describe.
>---
>Shreyas
It's not just 'okay' to say "it's a frog" but the idea of saying "it is a frog" is
quite obtuse and is somewhat reminiscent of some kind of English
learning program. Also when saying "it is a frog" it is quite difficult not
to put the emphasis on 'is', though if it was necessary to stress 'is', eg
in response to "it's not a frog" this would be quite appropriate.

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