“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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We don’t use affirmative contractions at the ends of sentences, generally. Contractions shorten between – and at the end of the sentence there is no between. Not is a negation and not a verb being contracted, so it has a completely different function in the sentence.
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