A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds...

I'll may refer to "I'll", meaning "I will" or "I shall", a contraction (grammar) I'll (manga) "I'll", a song by Band-Maid from Unleash "I'll", a song by...

up contraction or contracted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contraction may refer to: Contraction (grammar), a shortened word Poetic contraction, omission...

Abbreviation Acronym Blend word Clipping (phonetics) Compound (linguistics) Contraction (grammar) Diminutive Word formation "Shortenings". Oxford Dictionaries Online...

kid version of Doctor Eggman, from New Yoke City, in Sonic Prime Contraction (grammar) Do (verb) All pages with titles beginning with Don't This disambiguation...

English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts...

Acronym and initialism Apheresis (linguistics) Clipping (morphology) Contraction (grammar) Elision Syncope (phonetics) "Apocope". Oxford Dictionaries UK English...

(/ˈkreɪsɪs/; from the Greek κρᾶσις, lit. 'mixing' or 'blending') is a type of contraction in which two vowels or diphthongs merge into one new vowel or diphthong...

originally rather vague and varied significantly. The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use...

purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't" The marking of possessive case of nouns (as in...

dot): Los·ca·be·llos·queal·o·roos·cu·re·cí·an. Metaplasm Elision—Contraction (grammar) Apheresis (initial) Syncope (medial) Apocope (final) Crasis Synizesis...

thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. The political contractions of Newspeak — Ingsoc (English Socialism), Minitrue (Ministry of Truth)...

Tagalog grammar (Tagalog: Balarilà ng Tagalog) are the rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Tagalog language, one of the languages...

kiiro (黄色), and a more casual recent example is kimo-i (きもい, gross), by contraction of kimochi waru-i (気持ち悪い, bad-feeling). By contrast, in Old Japanese...

of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style. On this grammar page, Hindustani is written in the transcription outlined in Masica (1991)...

Pakistan and India and spoken by the Punjabi people. This page discusses the grammar of Modern Standard Punjabi as defined by the relevant sources below (see...

Pregroup grammar (PG) is a grammar formalism intimately related to categorial grammars. Much like categorial grammar (CG), PG is a kind of type logical...

brackets and romanization of Greek according to UN/ELOT rules in italics. The grammar of Modern Greek, as spoken in present-day Greece and Cyprus, is essentially...

Swedish is descended from Old Norse. Compared to its progenitor, Swedish grammar is much less characterized by inflection. Modern Swedish has two genders...

Ilocano grammar is the study of the morphological and syntactic structures of the Ilocano language, a language spoken in the northern Philippines by ethnic...

hierarchy. Link grammar is similar to dependency grammar, but dependency grammar includes a head-dependent relationship, whereas link grammar makes the head-dependent...

In Portuguese grammar, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and articles are moderately inflected: there are two genders (masculine and feminine) and two numbers...

Cebuano grammar encompasses the rules that define the Cebuano language, the most widely spoken of all the languages in the Visayan Group of languages...

Synalepha Elision Contraction (grammar) Crasis Synaeresis Greenough, J. B. (2001) [1903], Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (Focus ed.), Newburyport...

occurs by elision, crasis, synaeresis, or synizesis. Elision ("contraction" in English grammar), removal of a sound: beginning of a word (apheresis) middle...

Italian grammar is the body of rules describing the properties of the Italian language. Italian words can be divided into the following lexical categories:...

Colloquialism is characterized by the usage of figurative language, contractions, filler words, interjections, and other informalities such as slang....

Wayback Machine (contains pop-up ad) Greek Grammar Putting Words Together List of words said with Relaxed Pronunciation - also includes contractions...

Catalan grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Catalan language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages. Catalan is a relatively...

Kurdish grammar has many inflections, with prefixes and suffixes added to roots to express grammatical relations and to form words. Among all modern Iranian...