The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— I am
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Macmillan
— the usual way of saying or writing ‘I am’. This is not often used in formal writing
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Usage
1 use of ‘I’m’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
1 use of ‘I’m’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
72 uses of ‘I’m’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3 uses of ‘I’m’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle