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Why does contractionhave an apostrophe?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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The apostrophe indicates where letters have been removed from the original words to make the contraction.

So, if you change "do not" into "don't", you have removed the O between the n and the T, so you put the apostrophe in to indicate the missing letter. You only put one apostrophe even if more than one letter has been removed.

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