EXERCISE 2. REWRITE EACH PAIR OF SENTENCES AS ONE SENTENCE, TAKING OUT...

10. Lindsay gave Ted her best smile. Lindsay gave us her best smile.

Pronouns in Contractions

As we noted in Lesson 3, page 19,

A contraction is a combination of two words with one or

more letters omitted. An apostrophe [ ’ ] takes the place of

the omitted letters.

PRONOUN

+

VERB

=

CONTRACTION LETTER

(

S

)

OMITTED

you

+ are

= you’re

a

she

+ will

= she’ll

w i

I

+ would = I’d

w o u l

Note that the first word in a contraction does not lose any letters—only the second one

does. In the following contraction, the pronoun us loses a letter because it is the second

word.

let + us = let’s

Contractions are commonly used in conversation and in friendly letters and notes.

it

+ is

= it’s

I

+ am

=

I’m

they + will

= they’ll

we + are

=

we’re

you + have = you’ve

he + would =

he’d