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Grammar for high school admissions tests: Difference between revisions
Grammar for high school admissions tests (view source)
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** ''would not >> wouldn't, can not >> can't, will not won't'' | ** ''would not >> wouldn't, can not >> can't, will not won't'' | ||
* | * contracting "is" on relative pronouns | ||
** ''that's easy, who's going?'' | |||
* <u>note</u>: neither high school nor college admissions tests will use an apostrophe as a contraction for "is" or "are" with | *** = that is easy, who is going | ||
** ex. ''That elephant's big'' (with the 's" marking a slurred "is" sound in spoken | ** <u>note</u>: neither high school nor college admissions tests will use an apostrophe as a contraction for "is" or "are" with common nouns | ||
** or, ''Those elephants'r big'' (with the 's" marking a slurred "is" sound in spoken | *** ex. ''That elephant's big'' (with the 's" marking a slurred "is" sound in spoken | ||
*** or, ''Those elephants'r big'' (with the 's" marking a slurred "is" sound in spoken | |||
3. indicate plurality | 3. indicate plurality | ||