Abbreviations 3

                                                                       Contractions

Contractions are a type of abbreviation in which letters from the middle of the word are omitted.

Examples-

Dr
Doctor

St
Saint

Ltd
Limited

Revd
Reverend

A contraction can also be an abbreviated form of more than one word, for example:

I’ll
I will/I shall

we’ve
we have

shouldn’t
should not

You do not need to use a full stop at the end of contractions, because the last letter of the original word is still present.

In contractions that represent more than one word, the letters that have been omitted should be replaced with an apostrophe.