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edmondjanet

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I am a honest man, amn't I? or
I am a honest man, aren't I?
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I am a honest man, amn't I? or
I am a honest man, aren't I?
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aren't I is the correct option

I think amn't I is acceptable in some dialects but I don't know anything about that.
 

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You can also use am I not?
 

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You can also use am I not?
I feel genuinely one doubt, Can I write "amn't I" intead of" am I not"
"I amn't" is the short form of "I am not" or "I'm not"?
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I am a honest man, amn't I? or
I am a honest man, aren't I?
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***** NOT A TEACHER *****


"Good" English:

I am an honest man, aren't I?

I am an honest man, am I not?

"Bad: English (used by some native speakers):

I am an honest man, ain't I?

("Educated" people use "ain't" only when they are trying to be

humorous. Most -- NOT all -- people are embarrassed to use

"ain't." I have no doubt that a person who regularly uses "ain't"

would never be elected to high political office in this country.

We once had a president named Wilson. He reportedly said (in private)

such things as "She don't like him." But he always said "She

doesn't like him" in public. As a non-teacher and a fellow

student of English like you, I respectfully suggest that you

not use "ain't" -- except when you are in a humorous mood.)

P.S. The scholar George O. Curme (writing in the 1930's) says

that the spelling amn't is sometimes used in Ireland in the first

person singular:

Amn't I after telling you she's a great help to her mother?
(Lennox Robinson, The Whiteheaded Boy)
 

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Interestingly, 'aren't' is not particularly odd, in the spoken version. Other auxiliary verbs change the vowel in the contracted version - do/don't, will/won't, and two have the same change as am - shall/shan't, can/can't.
 
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