CONTRACTIONS A CONTRACTION IS A SHORT WAY OF SAYING SOMETHING. IN A CONTRACTION, TWO WORDS ARE JOINED. AN APOSTROPHE (‘) GOES IN PLACE OF THE MISSING LETTERS. Creaded by cconde DSA 2009

Many contractions are formed with pronouns and the verb will. An apostrophe (‘) takes the place of the letters wi in will.

HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CONTRACTION IN A SENTENCE:

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HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CONTRACTION IN A SENTENCE:

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HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CONTRACTION IN A SENTENCE:

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HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CONTRACTION IN A SENTENCE:

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HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CONTRACTION IN A SENTENCE:

SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS ONE BECOMES

HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CONTRACTION IN A SENTENCE:

SEE IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS ONE BECOMES

HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS CONTRACTION IN A SENTENCE:

Now, let’s see if you know how to make these into contractions:

Read the newspaper article below. Let’s change the green words to contractions. Jasmine Hughes is only nine years old. be the first child to journey into space. Jasmine has been training since she was four. travel on the space shuttle Investigator. Six other astronauts will be in her crew. have to work well as a team. Darren Unger will be the commander. be the leader of the crew. They know their mission is important. help scientists learn more about the universe. The world will be able to watch parts of the trip on TV. see history being made!