Re: It's vs. it is

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Shreyas Sampat wrote:

> 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 =
That's because "I don't know where 'tis." is the construction in this
case (albeit a somewhat archaic one).

This makes more sense if you realize that English uses the one word as
two different words.  One is a verb, the other is a copula.

Irish distinguishes the two.

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