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A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.
In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term "abbreviation" in layman’s terms.[1] Contraction is also distinguished from morphological clipping, where beginnings and endings are omitted.
The definition overlaps with the term portmanteau (a linguistic blend), but a distinction can be made between a portmanteau and a contraction by noting that contractions are formed from words that would otherwise appear together in sequence, such as do and not, whereas a portmanteau word is formed by combining two or more existing words that all relate to a singular concept that the portmanteau describes.
English
English has a number of contractions, mostly involving the elision of a vowel (which is replaced by an apostrophe in writing), as in I'm for "I am", and sometimes other changes as well. These contractions are common in speech and in informal writing, but tend to be avoided in more formal writing (with limited exceptions, such as the now standard form "o'clock").
The main contractions are listed in the following table.
Full form Contracted Notes
let us let's informal, as in "Let's do this."
I am I'm informal, as in "I'm here."
are -'re informal; we're /wɪər/ or /wɛər/ is, in most cases, pronounced differently from were /wɜr/.
does -'s informal, as in "What's he do there every day?"
is informal, as in "He's driving right now."
has informal, as in "She's been here before."
have -'ve informal, as in "I've never done this before."
had -'d informal, e.g. "He'd already left." or "We'd better go."
did informal, as in "
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+1@Graingy ik :)
+1@Graingy I like his building style too C:
+1Welcome back!
+1Cool!
+1I think the trends dead now
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+1Mr poppers penguin be like:
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+1A
+1@WisconsinStatePolice my reaction to that information
+1@BYardley np
+1@BYardley some devices can handle a specific amount of performance. Mine can handle 16k before it starts lagging
+1@Ghosts that’s the funny part. There’s none.
+1@Graingy shut up I’m watching nuclear bomb prank (grandparents)
+1@Graingy yup!
+1You seem cool, like Graingy!
+1First off. this is my score. Second off I can’t buy the antimatter condenser, even though I have enough
+1@BARREND yeah :(
+1They left
+1@Yourlocalhuman “toughts”
+1@Graingy sure
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+1Pretty late but there’s minigame tag now, but it’s not being used :/
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+1Welcome to SimplePlanes!
+1Sky on fire: 1941?
+1What
+1I ain’t clicking on those links…
+1@Graingy yes
+1For that last question, yes
+1Holy carp that looks amazing
+1First
+1My B-24 didn’t pick up lots of traction. It’s 1:1 scale and has 1:1 performance and weight
+1@Guywhobuildsstuff donut f117
+1@LunarEclipseSP danke :)
+1@LunarEclipseSP how do I use it? I already uploaded the image, it what link do I use?
+1Also welcome!
+1You can’t damage any parts I believe, including props
+1@Graingy This article is about grammar of modern languages, which involves elision. For contraction in Ancient Greek and the coalescence of two vowels into one, see crasis. For the linguistic function of pronouncing vowels together, see Synaeresis. For other uses, see Contraction (disambiguation).
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A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.
In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term "abbreviation" in layman’s terms.[1] Contraction is also distinguished from morphological clipping, where beginnings and endings are omitted.
The definition overlaps with the term portmanteau (a linguistic blend), but a distinction can be made between a portmanteau and a contraction by noting that contractions are formed from words that would otherwise appear together in sequence, such as do and not, whereas a portmanteau word is formed by combining two or more existing words that all relate to a singular concept that the portmanteau describes.
English
English has a number of contractions, mostly involving the elision of a vowel (which is replaced by an apostrophe in writing), as in I'm for "I am", and sometimes other changes as well. These contractions are common in speech and in informal writing, but tend to be avoided in more formal writing (with limited exceptions, such as the now standard form "o'clock").
The main contractions are listed in the following table.
Full form Contracted Notes
+1let us let's informal, as in "Let's do this."
I am I'm informal, as in "I'm here."
are -'re informal; we're /wɪər/ or /wɛər/ is, in most cases, pronounced differently from were /wɜr/.
does -'s informal, as in "What's he do there every day?"
is informal, as in "He's driving right now."
has informal, as in "She's been here before."
have -'ve informal, as in "I've never done this before."
had -'d informal, e.g. "He'd already left." or "We'd better go."
did informal, as in "
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+1@Graingy if you compare these specs to the wiki specs there almost identical : )
+1@Graingy that’s the hardest photo I’ve ever seen. It’s now in my photos
+1@Graingy
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