Contractions: Activity

What is the difference between using a contraction and using each word separately?

Negative contractions

• Don't you want to go to the movie? 
• *Do not you want to go to the movie

• Wouldn't you think so?
• *Would not you think so?

• Couldn't you help out?
• *Could not you help out?

Pronoun+Verb contractions

• Jo and you are in for a surprise.
• *Jo and you're in for a surprise.

• She often is right.
• *She often's right.

Should we call all of these contractions? Are they the same type of thing?

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