1. 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. Created by cconde DSA 2009

2. Some contractions are formed with the words am, is, and are. The apostrophe takes the place of the letter a in am. It takes the place of i in is. It takes the place of a in are.

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

17. Read the diary entry below. Let’s change the green words to contractions. Dear Diary, going to my karate class on Saturday morning. a class for beginners. Maria and Toby are taking karate, too. in my class. Maria learned some karate moves from her older brother. in a different class. Maria knows how to do more kicks than anyone else. I think the best student. Allan is our karate teacher. 39 years old. He has been doing karate since he was five. He has a black belt. Maria, Toby, and I plan to take lessons for a long time. going to get our black belts one day, too.