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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishII1 /aɪ/ ●●● S1 W1 pronoun [used as the subject of a verb]
PERSON/PEOPLEused by the person speaking or writing to refer to himself or herself
I moved to this city six years ago.
I’m not late again, am I?
My husband and I enjoy going to the theatre.GRAMMAR: Patterns with I• You say: Sarah and I went for coffee. ✗Don’t say: I and Sarah• In everyday English, you say that someone is older, younger, taller etc than me: They were older than me.• You can also say: They were older than I was.It sounds very formal to say than I.Examples from the CorpusI• I saw Mike yesterday.Letters & punctuationII2, i /aɪ/ noun (plural I’s, i’s)
1 [countable, uncountable]SLA the ninth letter of the English alphabet 2 SLA[countable] the number one in the system of roman numerals3 → I-25, I-40 etci-i- /aɪ/ prefix [in nouns]used in the names of some products or services that involve using the Internet
iTunes (=trademark for a service allowing you to buy music over the Internet)Nationality & race, Geography-i-i /-i/ suffix (plural -is)
1 [in nouns]SANSG a person from a particular country or place, or their language
two Pakistanis
speakers of Hindi2 [in adjectives]SG of a particular place or country
Bengali food
the Israeli armyExamples from the Corpus-i• speakers of NepaliOrigin I2 Old English ic
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