Sunday, October 13, 2013

Contractions....


Contractions      A contraction is a combination of two words.
(‘) An apostrophe takes the place of letters that are left out.
To read a contraction, figure out which letters the apostrophe replaced.
They are becomes they’re.

1.    they’re                 they are
2.    you’ve                 you have
3.    weren’t                were not
4.    needn’t                 need not
5.    there’d                 there would
6.    they’ve                 they have
7.    mustn’t                must not
8.    what’ll                  what will
9.    doesn’t                 does not
10. hadn’t                 had not

     11.  could’ve             could have
12.  would’ve            would have
13.   should’ve            should have
14.  might’ve             might have
15.  wouldn’t             would not
16.  who’ve               who have
     17.  shouldn’t            should not
18.   who’d                who did
19.  this’ll                  this will
20.  couldn’t              could not


Challenge Words
21.  there’ve              there have
22.  mightn’t             might not
     23.  what’ve              what have
24.  those’ll               those will
     25.  there’ll               there will

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