A contraction is a word made by shortening and combining two words. Writers use contractions to express themselves more casually and colloquially.
Here are some examples of contractions:
As you can tell from the above examples, contractions use apostrophes. Apostrophes take the place of the letters and spaces that disappear when you form a contraction.
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