CONTRACTioNS

Contraction means to shorten a word or phrase by omitting one
or more sounds or letters from it. The word so formed is also
called a contraction. Discussed below are the various contractions
used in spoken English.
The apostrophe has two uses:
1. To show that we have made words shorter. We have contracted
them.
2. To show that something belongs to someone, i.e. they possess
it. (possession)
Here are two examples.
• My dad's car is red.
Here we hive only one dad but we have put on the letter's' because
we have put an apostrophe. It shows that the car belongs to
dad.
• "I'll tell you that later," he whispered.
I will has become I'll, we have joined two words and missed out
the letters WI and put in the apostrophe instead.
We use apostrophes because it can make our writing easier to
read.
In the list below we are going to look at apostrophes for contracting words