I don't fully understand what a contraction is. So if I put an 's, 'll, 'd, 've, etc after any word does it make it a contraction? Only in spoken English. But in written English, some contractions are not usually written that

I'm a British English speaker. There may be differences here between British and American usage. "I have to " is fine. "I've got to " is also OK, but is more informal (the contraction "I've"

"it is" if it has to be contracted then it is always "it's", the apostophe shows that something has been removed, ie the "i". A lot, if not all, contractions follow this method. eg. "do not" becomes

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Hello I see we have some Old English cognoscenti in this forum so I wondered if someone could confirm or ... the case that lazy (or rapid) speech gave rise to contractions which were then taken up in the written word? The possessive apostrophe

I see we have some Old English cognoscenti in this forum so I wondered if someone could confirm or otherwise, ... the case that lazy (or rapid) speech gave rise to contractions which were then taken up in the written word? The simple answer is

Hello I see we have some Old English cognoscenti in this forum so I wondered if someone could confirm or otherwise, the assertion that the possesive use of the apostrophe (the man's hat) is actually just another example of the apostrophe being

In my kind of talk, in the sense you mention, ... clearly, a schwa replaces the vowel. "I k'n gowith you". Do you have the "pin"/"pen" merger? (If so, where are you from?) If youdo, your "kin"

I'm *gonna* ask this question just once: ...and I have a few more, on a similar contraction. Fill in each blank with the appropriate word that begins with the indicated first letter. For example I'm g ask this question. Ans: gonna 1. I w

... } I believe we were being vouchsafed two items of informationm as in } "He is tall and thin. ... have been unremarkable. It wasn't any of those three unremarkable phrasings. The FAQ rule is: Conjunctions don't pry contractions