Language Arts Grade Four

Unit One, Lesson Two: Apostrophes


  1. pain
  2. stain
  3. train
  4. rain
  5. drain
  6. hibernation
  7. migration
  8. oxygen
  9. climate
  10. animals
  1. lizards
  2. turtles
  3. snakes
  4. shelter
  5. water
  6. dessert
  7. desert
  8. cactus
  9. mountains
  10. arid
Apostrophes and Contractions

You should pay close attention to how contractions are formed. In most cases we just put two words together (like "do" and "not") and replace the "o" in "not" with an apostrophe (as in "doesn't"). But there are exceptions.


   will not --> won't

   let us   --> let's

These are exceptions to the general pattern:

       CONTRACTION		WORD PAIR

         don't			  do not
         can't			  can not
         won't			  will not
 	 haven't		  have not
         hasn't			  has not
         wouldn't		  would not
	 shouldn't		  should not
	 didn't			  did not
	 doesn't		  does not
	 mustn't		  must not
         couldn't		  could not
	 let's			  let us
	 

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