喜樂美語
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    This is an old way to say it is. The first sound of it drops, so it is becomes 'tis. Poets and song writers liked it because it is short and easy to sing: 'Tis the season to be jolly. You will meet it in old plays, church songs, and Christmas music. Nobody uses it in ordinary talk today, unless they are joking or quoting. Though actually, it is the same two words you already know — it and is — just joined in an old shape. The sister form ' means it was.

    it is（詩、歌詞、古說法）

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成it + is, with the i of it dropped. The apostrophe marks that missing sound.

同家族的字

  • it'stoday we say it's, not 'tis, for it is
  • 'twasthe same old cut, used for it was

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。