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How to spell doesn't

hear it/'dʌzʌnt/verbSilent and tricky

What it means: A short form of 'does not'.

In a sentence: He doesn't like spinach, but he loves carrots.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as doesnt or dosent.

Same family: does, did, done, doing, don't. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Doesn't” is a contraction of “does not.” The shortened negative ending -n't developed in English in the 1600s and is now one of the most common features of everyday spoken English.

Patterns it uses: Double the consonant before a suffix? · The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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