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Study skills
Read the sets of sentences. Pay attention to the highlighted words.

• She will be trapped under this bucket. • There is only one way to find out.
She’ll be trapped under this bucket. There’s only one way to find out.

• I did not tell anyone how the • I am the unniappam thief.
traps worked. I’m the unniappam thief.

I didn’t tell anyone how the traps worked.

The apostrophe (’) tells us that some letters are missing. Let us study some more

examples.

do not don’t you are you’re

they have they’ve it is it’s

what is what’s I would I’d

would not wouldn’t are not aren’t

let us let’s will not won’t

cannot can’t here is here’s

Rewrite the sentences after replacing some words with the ones in the box.

they’re we’ll where’s isn’t don’t

1. Where is my bag?

2. Tanya is not at home today.

3. They are my cousins.

4. She exclaimed, ‘Do not do that!’

5. We will go home at noon.

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