Abbreviations 1

                                                                      Abbreviations

People are often unsure about how to write abbreviations. The main areas of uncertainty are:

whether to write abbreviations with capital letters
whether to use full stops
when to use apostrophes.

Here’s a quick-reference guide to help you get it right.

There are several kinds of abbreviation: the way an abbreviation is written usually depends on the category to which it belongs. The 4 categories are listed below.

1. Shortenings

2. Contractions

3. Initialisms

4. Acronyms