Contractions

Contractions are a type of abbreviation in which letters from the middle of the word are omitted. 

Examples include:

contraction	full form
Dr	Doctor
St	Saint
Ltd	Limited
Revd	Reverend

 

A contraction can also be an abbreviated form of more than one word.

For example:

 

contraction	full form
I’ll	I will/I shall
we’ve	we have
shouldn’t	should not

• You do not need to use a full stop at the end of contractions, because the last letter of the original word is still present.

• In contractions that represent more than one word, the letters that have been omitted should be replaced with an apostrophe.

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