hasn't
English
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[edit]hasn't
- Has not: negative form of the auxiliary has[1]
- She hasn't got toothache any longer.
- (archaic, dialectal, literary) Has not/does not have: negative form of the lexical has
- (She) hasn’t a chance, Mary (hasn’t).
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
- “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Arnold M. Zwicky and Geoffrey K. Pullum, Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n’t, Language 59 (3), 1983, pp. 502-513
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