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50+ Contractions in English!

12m · Espresso English Podcast · 22 Apr 13:00

Contractions combine two words into a short form with an apostrophe – for example, I am becomes I’m; could not becomes couldn’t... and many more that you’ll learn in this lesson.

Contractions are extremely common in spoken English and informal written English, and today you’re going to learn 50 of them – yes, we do have that many contractions in English!

Make sure to download the free PDF guide to this lesson so you can save the full contractions list and all the example sentences.

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