Assertion: contraction | /r/UsedFor | long time
Facets:
value: in english
type: OTHER
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Contractions have been around for a very long time—in English, as far back as the creation of the language itself, when the Angles and Saxons invaded the British Isles and mixed the local Celtic dialects with their Germanic languages (the Germans love contractions and compound words).