RIC-6242 Primary Grammar and Word Study - Book C
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Apostrophes in contractions<br />
Some words can be joined together to make a new, shorter word.<br />
When one or more letters are removed <strong>and</strong> replaced by an apostrophe,<br />
the new, shorter word is called a contraction.<br />
When making a contraction with the word ‘not’, the ‘o’ is usually<br />
removed <strong>and</strong> replaced with an apostrophe between the ‘n’ <strong>and</strong> the ‘t’.<br />
The first word doesn’t usually change.<br />
For example:<br />
do + not = don’t<br />
There are two exceptions: with ‘will not’, the spelling<br />
changes to ‘won’t’; <strong>and</strong> ‘can not’ contracts to ‘can’t’.<br />
can + not = can’t will + not = won’t<br />
1. (a) Find a sock with a word that is a contraction of the two words in another<br />
sock. Colour the pair of socks the same or with the same pattern.<br />
(b) Find other pairs <strong>and</strong> colour them different colours.<br />
does not<br />
didn’t<br />
2. Write which letter(s) has/have been removed to make each contraction.<br />
(a) can’t<br />
aren’t<br />
(b) doesn’t<br />
(c) didn’t<br />
(d) aren’t<br />
can’t<br />
have not<br />
isn’t<br />
did not<br />
don’t<br />
are not<br />
can not<br />
won’t<br />
doesn’t<br />
haven’t<br />
Remember: In contractions, the apostrophe goes where<br />
some letters used to be.<br />
is not<br />
do not<br />
will not<br />
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