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You’re writing along—a text message, a Facebook update, or something a little more important like an online article—and all of a sudden you type a word that’s a contraction. Contractions? you say. Hint: I just used two of them in my first sentence. Merriam-Webster defines a contraction as “a shortening of a word, syllable, or word group by omission of a sound or letter.” And I’ll add that when the letter or sound is omitted, an apostrophe takes its place. By the way, the contractions I used are “you’re” and “that’s.”

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