Contractions
Contractions are a type of abbreviation in which letters from the middle of the word are omitted. Examples include:
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contraction
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full form
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Dr
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Doctor
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St
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Saint
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Ltd
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Limited
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Revd
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Reverend
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A contraction can also be an abbreviated form of more than one word, for example:
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contraction
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full form
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I’ll
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I will/I shall
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we’ve
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we have
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shouldn’t
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should not
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- You do not need to use a full stop at the end of contractions, because the last letter of the original word is still present.
- In contractions that represent more than one word, the letters that have been omitted should be replaced with an apostrophe.