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Use of contractions that function as auxiliary verbs

Were it not that I have seen them several times, I would have simply put the phrases: It don’t matter; It shows he don’t deserve to lead; Fellows who has never interacted with, down to brief moments of inattention on the writers’ part.

However, these are expressions we come across on an almost daily basis in the course of exchanges on various discourses. The question then arises; are the phrases above grammatically correct?

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