Positive Contractions
Notes
Be careful. Some contractions can have two or three meanings. For example, he'd can be he had or he would. It depends on the rest of the sentence. Look at these examples:
- He'd like to go. (He would like to go.)
- He'd finished when I arrived. (He had finished when I arrived.)
The contraction 's (= is or has) is not used only with pronouns. It can also be used with nouns, names, question words and words like "here" and "there", for example: The train's late. John's arrived. Where's the phone? Here's your change. There's a policeman.
Short form | Long form |
I'm | I am |
I've | I have |
I'll | I will/I shall |
I'd | I would/I should/I had |
you're | you are |
you've | you have |
you'll | you will |
you'd | you had/you would |
he's | he has/he is |
he'll | he will |
he'd | he had/he would |
she's | she has/she is |
she'll | she will |
she'd | she had/she would |
it's | it has/it is |
it'll | it will |
we're | we are |
we've | we have |
we'll | we will |
we'd | we had/we would |
they're | they are |
they've | they have |
they'll | they will |
they'd | they had/they would |
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