“Are you cold?”
“I’m”
“Have you showered?”
“I’ve”
“Is it raining?”
“It’s”
“Am I ugly?”
“You’re”
You get the gist. Why is it so weird to say these instead of “I am, I have, It is, You are”?
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Are you starting a sentence or answering a question? “I’m” both starts a sentence and functions as an answer. It could also be the start of a sentence that would respond to a question.
Without context, it becomes ineffective in communication.
The question “Are you cold?”
The response is technically “I am cold” and you shorten it to “I am.” Shortening it further implies a longer answer and the start of a sentence. You could mean “I’m actually hot” and then be having a stroke suddenly (joke but true).
When you take the shortened answer “I’m” out of context, we have no idea what it means. When you pull “I am” out of context, we can understand it was a reply or statement. When we say the correct sentence of “I am cold” it gives us full understanding of the response alone.
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