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Should you write "don't" or "do not"? It depends. Contractions are the default in everyday writing such as emails, dialogue, and conversational prose. But they're almost always absent in scholarly pap
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Aulia Masna
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🇮🇩 & 🇬🇧 | Politics, tech, and personal posts | Sometimes I joke | I’m here to entertain and be entertained | Former tech journo, used to write for Macworld, DailySocial, e27. Ex , ran a national startup initiative program in Indonesia. Very much into the news. Science fiction is in my blood. Proud leftist.
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@grammargirl@zirk.us don’t or do not? There isn’t no try.
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