Contractions

[Deb]

You know, those words you can put together such as "do not" into "don't".

Do you use these? All the time? Only in informal emails? What do you consider proper grammar? What do you do? What do you prefer to receive? Any and all thoughts and opinions welcome.

Drills here: greggshorthand.proboards.com/thread/1440/contractions-shorthand

Dictionary.com definition here: www.dictionary.com/browse/contraction

[Deb]

These are words combined. For example, "it is" to "it's". These often contain an apostrophe, most of the time to indicate any missing letters.

TIP: "It's" can be "it is" or "it has". That's how I remember the difference from "its" without an apostrophe. Several can also be used in similar a manner.

When to use?

• Friendly, familiar, way.


• How someone speaks naturally. In fiction writing or interviews. This lets your reader know how a person speaks.


• To save characters and spacing. Twitter or advertising are two examples.

There are some people who don't use a lot of contractions or are used infrequently in business writing.


For drill practice see: greggshorthand.proboards.com/thread/1440/contractions?page=1&scrollTo=6453

[Deb]

Received - rec'd

There are several ways to abbreviate this word, however, this way is the contraction.

[Deb]

Because I was searching I found this. Never saw the last contraction, but it looks like it's been used in rapid speech. So you may have heard it, but I don't think it's been written.

"I would have" to "I would've" to "I'd've"