Introduction to contractions발음듣기
Introduction to contractions
[Paige] So today we're gonna talk about contractions which are another use for our friend, the apostrophe.발음듣기
[David] So something that apostrophes are really good at doing is showing when letters are missing from a word.발음듣기
So in linguistics, I'm told there's this idea called the principle of least effort, but I'm not a linguist, Paige, you are.발음듣기
[Paige] Which is, you know, tends to be accurate across language, so you know, we can say something like "I will", but honestly that kind of takes a lot of effort to say, right?발음듣기
It's just easier to just collapse all of that into one, you know, one syllable, one sound to say "I'll".발음듣기
And we can turn that into, with the help of our friend the apostrophe, the word "she'd" means the same thing.발음듣기
[David] So this is pretty straightforward, but there are some kind of strange uses of contractions.발음듣기
So for example if you contract the phrase "will not" into a single contraction, it doesn't turn into willn't", it turns into won't".발음듣기
[Paige] So in this case the apostrophe stands in the place of this "o", but all these letters disappear, and they're kind of unaccounted for.발음듣기
Right, it just takes letters from the middle of the word, and it takes them away, it stands in for the fact that there are letters missing.발음듣기
[Paige] So "I will" goes to "I'll", She would" becomes she'd", He is" becomes he's", and will not" becomes won't". So that's contractions.발음듣기
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