Page 2 - Contractions-MIND MAP and NOTES

’m = am (I’m)

’re = are (you’re, we’re, they’re)
’s = is and has (he’s, she’s, it’s)

’ve = have (’ve, you’ve, we’ve, they’ve)

’ll = will (I’ll, you’ll, he’ll, she’ll, it’ll, we’ll, they’ll)
’d = had and would (I’d, you’d, he’d, she’d, it’d, we’d, they’d)

Contractions with auxiliary verb and not

The contraction for not is n’t:

aren’t = are not (we aren’t, you aren’t)

can’t = cannot

couldn’t = could not

didn’t = did not (I didn’t, they didn’t)

hasn’t = has not

haven’t = have not

isn’t = is not (she isn’t, it isn’t)

mustn’t = must not

shan’t = shall not

shouldn’t = should not

wasn’t = was not

weren’t = were not

won’t = will not

wouldn’t = would not

We use contractions with be + negative in two ways:
She is not is contracted to she isn’t or she’s not. I am not is only contracted to I’m not.
Not: I’m n’t or I am n’t. They are not is contracted to they aren’t or they’re not.