Italian GCSE
Grammatical contractions
What Grammatical contractions means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Grammatical contractions
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Reference: AQA
When a, da, di, in or su meets a definite article, they contract into a single word, and in changes its stem to ne-.
Topics that use Grammatical contractions
- Prepositions (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Articulated prepositions
- Past narratives
- Prepositions
- Spatial relationships
- Temporal expressions
- Time and duration
- Verb tenses
- Verb-preposition combinations
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