- A contraction is a combination of two words.
- In a contraction, an apostrophe (’) takes the place of missing letters.
- There are affirmative contractions and negative contractions.
Affirmative Contractions Pronoun | + to be | + would | + will | I | I am I’m | I’d | I’ll | you | you are you’re | you’d | you’ll | we | we are we’re | we’d | we’ll | they | they are they’re | they’d | they’ll | he | he is he’s | he’d | he’ll | she | she is she’s | she’d | she’ll | it | it is it’s | it’d | it’ll | there | there is: there’s | there’d | there’ll | that | that is that’s | this’d | this’ll |
| Negative Contractions Verb + not | Contraction | do not | don’t | does not | doesn’t | did not | didn’t | is not | isn’t | are not | aren’t | was not | wasn’t | were not | weren’t | has not | hasn’t | have not | haven’t | had not | hadn’t | will not | won’t | would not | wouldn’t | can not | can’t | could not | couldn’t | should | shouldn’t |
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