CONTRACTIONS
Contraction means to shorten a word or phrase by omitting one or more sounds or letters from it.
1. My mom has a blue car.
Contracted sentence - My mom's car is blue
- mom has = mom's
2. I will buy you an ice-cream.
Contracted sentence - I'll buy you an ice cream
- I will = I'll
Contractions use the apostrophe (') to make words shorter and more straightforward.
Other examples
- Cannot = Can't
- They will = They'll
- There is = There's
- Who is = Who's
- Would have = Would've
- It's a man = It is a man
- There's a red balloon = There is a red balloon
- Where there's water there's life = Where there is water there is life
The nots:
- hasn't = has not
- isn't = is not
- don't = do not
- doesn't = does not
- won't = will not
- haven't = have not
- can't = can not
- wouldn't = would not
- shouldn't = should not
- couldn't = could not
- mustn't = must not