Connected speech: contractions

Contractions

A contraction is a single word which has been formed by combining two words and replacing one or more letter with an apostrophe ( ' ).
The meaning of a contraction is identical to the meaning of the two words which it is formed.

(taken from: youtube.com)

There are four kinds of contractions, we can do it with:

• TO BE verb
• Auxiliary verb TO HAVE
• TO DO verb
• Modals verbs

	I	You, We, They	He, She, It
Do	don't	don't	doesn't
Did	didn't	didn't	didn't
Am	'm (not)	-	-
Is	-	-	's - isn't
Are	-	're - aren't	-
Was	wasn't	-	wasn't
Were	-	weren't	-
Have	've - haven't	've - haven't	-
Has	-	-	's - hasn't
Had	'd - hadn't	'd - hadn't	'd - hadn't
Will	'll - won't	'll - won't	'll - won't
Would	'd - wouldn't	'd - wouldn't	'd - wouldn't
Can	can't	can't	can't
Could	couldn't	couldn't	couldn't
Must	mustn't	mustn't	mustn't
Should	shouldn't	shouldn't	shouldn't
Ought to	oughtn't to	oughtn't to	oughtn't to