Remember: To contract two words means to make them smaller and easier to say or write. To do this, we combine them together.

For example: She will = she’ll

It’s important to place the apostrophe correctly because it shows where you omitted (left out) some letters when you joined the two words together.

For example: You + are = you’re

The apostrophe takes the place of the letters that have been removed. In the example above, that’s the letter a from ‘are’.

Don’t forget!

Sometimes you need to rearrange the letters a bit when you combine them.

For example: Will + not = won’t

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