Common Contractions
A contraction is one word that was once two. When you create a contraction, you squeeze two words into one.
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? How to make a Contraction ? To make a contraction, you leave out one or more letters from the original two words and replace them with an apostrophe (') Put the apostrophe exactly in the place of the missing letters or words.
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Common Contractions
The following is NOT a complete list of contractions. It does contain most of the common one that students are likely to read or use in their own writing.
| Not | Will | Am | Are | Is/Has | Have | Us |
| can't | I'll | I'm | you're | he's | I've | let's |
| don't | you'll | we're | she's | you've | ||
| didn't | he'll | they're | it's | we've | ||
| couldn't | she'll | that's | they've | |||
| haven't | it'll | |||||
| isn't | we'll | |||||
| hasn't | they'll | |||||
| wasn't | ||||||
| won't | ||||||
| wouldn't | ||||||
| shouldn't |
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DID YOU KNOW ? A contraction is two words joined with an apostrophe to show the omission of a letter or letters, for example "We will" = "We'll". The word "apostrophe" comes from the Greek phrase prosoida apostrophos, literally meaning "accent of turning away". A punctuation mark showing where a letter or sound has been omitted is therefore called an apostrophe.
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