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my neck's broken #1 (permalink) Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:01 am   my neck's broken
 

I think my neck's broken and my back hurts.
In the above sentence, is "neck's" a contraction of "neck is" or "neck has"?
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my neck's broken #2 (permalink) Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:09 am   my neck's broken
 

"Neck's" can be the contracted form for both 'neck is' and 'neck has'. More often than not, though, the contraction stands for 'neck is'.
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