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Negative contractions

we're not going to talk we've already seen we are so subject plus b but you can also contract b plus not so we aren't going to talk about it we aren't going to talk about it be...

Course: Everyday English from the startSection: Be going to for the futureSubtitles: en

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10:04

know

10:04

we're

10:05

not going to talk

10:07

we've already seen we are so subject

10:11

plus b

10:13

but you can also

10:14

contract

10:16

b

10:17

plus

10:19

not

10:20

so

10:22

we

10:23

aren't

10:24

going to talk about it

10:26

we aren't going to talk about it

10:30

be careful you can only contract

10:33

is and are

10:35

plus not

10:37

when you have the i form

10:40

you cannot contract

10:42

i'm not

10:43

differently you can't say

10:45

i

10:46

or something like that there's only one

10:49

way to contract i am not

10:52

and it's

10:53

i'm not

10:55

let's look at the others

10:58

so we'll look at the two versions in the

11:00

u form

11:02

so

11:03

you aren't going to play

11:06

and you're not going to play

11:10

we'll just look at the contraction of b

11:12

and not in the rest of the forms

11:16

so

11:17

she isn't going to play

11:20

he

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