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