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Clouse: Jumpstart
Jumpstart!: A Workbook for Writers, 2/e
Barbara Fine Clouse

Apostrophes

Glossary


contraction  the combination of two words through omission of one or more letters and the use of an apostrophe; (e.g., hasn't [for "has not"])