Re: Context without manager

Piergiorgio Sartor  <piergiorgio.sartor.this.should.not.be.used@nexgo.REMOVETHIS.de> writes:

The problem is I've some SDK of some device which
provides context manager *only* classes.

  Everybody please excuse my being off topic. But it really
  make is hard for me to read messages when contractions are
  used in a way that seems wrong to me. I noticed this now for
  the third time in a post by Piergiorgio.

  I (not being a native speaker myself) think, when "have" is
  the main verb, it is not contracted. It's contracted when
  it's an auxiliary verb. So:

I've seen this before.
I've got another an.

  , but (note that no other verb follows "have" directly):

I have been there.
I have all of them.

  I wrote all of the above just by my own judgement, but now let
  me try to find something in the Web so support this: Web:

|As far as I'm aware, verbs are usually only contracted when they are:
|auxiliary, e.g. 'are' in they're leaving, and
|unstressed (they can be attached to a stressed word but remain
|                                  unstressed, themselves), and
|informal/casual (or formal when quoted verbatim).
...
|in en-US, where they favour using 'have' as a main verb, which
|does not get contracted:
|"I have money"
...
quoted from the World-Wide Web.

  The other two cases were:

I've myself unclear ideas

   and

I'll not see any reply

  .