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Wherever a letter (or letters) is missing is where the apostrophe should go. For example, in do not or can not the contraction drops the 'o' in 'not' so the apostrophe takes its place - don't; can't. In this same way, whenever 's is used, the apostrophe is taking the place of the 'i' in 'is'.

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