“We’re not” emphasises the importance of “NOT” to the sentence, as the “ARE” is shortened, and vice versa in the other case. Depends Whether you want to emphasise how unlikely it is, e.g.
“We’re not eating cockroaches”
This is more forceful than:
“We aren’t eating cockroaches”
Which sounds weird. And you’re taking grammar lessons from Americans? Tut tut.
And then Neil said:
I prefer “we’re not”, personally, although I’m not sure why.
And then tom said:yeah me too, Americans i’ve spoken to seem to prefer “we aren’t” (sample size 2)
And then KateG said:“We’re not” emphasises the importance of “NOT” to the sentence, as the “ARE” is shortened, and vice versa in the other case. Depends Whether you want to emphasise how unlikely it is, e.g.
“We’re not eating cockroaches”
This is more forceful than:
“We aren’t eating cockroaches”
Which sounds weird. And you’re taking grammar lessons from Americans? Tut tut.
And then KateG said:“We’re not” emphasises the “Not” (as it is in full instead of being shortened) making it sound less likely than “we aren’t” which is more neutral.
And then KateG said:Sorry for second comment, I though my first one had been lost. Lashings of apologies!
And then tom said:For some reason it asked me to moderate your comments
And then Neil said:Yes Kate, when will you moderate your comments? :-)
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