Page 4 - Lesson Notes

Common contractions
In English, there are a fairly small number of contractions, and they're all made out of common words.
Here are some of the contractions: (please take a note in your CW Copy)

EXCEPTIONS?!!
You might have noticed that the word won't is a little different from the other contractions. It means will

not, even though the word will isn't there. The English language always has special rules for some
words; these words are known as irregular words.
 When the words 'will' and 'not' are contracted, they don't form the word 'willn't'.
 That sounds odd, doesn't it? That's because will + not = won't.

 We use the word 'won't' often in speaking and writing.

Let’s summarise (Note the key points in your CW Notebook)

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