Many times contractions are challenging for readers and writers; however, I think it is much easier to see how contractions work if you can visualize both words and then learn how they are put together in an abbreviated fashion.
Many contractions are misused. In general, an apostrophe is used to denote a contraction or to show ownership or possession. If you come upon a word with an apostrophe and it does not indicate possession, it may help to ask yourself, "Can I divide this word into two separate words?" For example, you would use
were in the sentence, "They
were traveling south," but you would use the word
we're in the sentence, "
We're (we are) traveling east"
This set of 15 flash cards highlight 15 common word contractions, first showing the two words by themselves, and then showing the contraction.
Directions
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| Common Word Contractions |
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| Language Arts Practice with Contractions |
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| Contraction for did not |
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| Didn't |
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| Contraction for have not |
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| Haven't |
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| Contraction for will not |
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| Won't |
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| Contraction for I will |
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| I'll |
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| Contraction for she will |
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| She'll |
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| Contraction for they will |
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| They'll |
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| Contraction for it is |
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| It's |
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| Contraction for that is |
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| That's |
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| Contraction for who is |
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| Who's |
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| Contraction for he would |
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| He'd |
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| Contraction for I would |
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| I'd |
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| Contraction for they would |
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| They'd |
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| Contraction for we are |
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| We're |
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| Contraction for they are |
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| They're |
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| Contraction for we would |
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| We'd |
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