Contraction Words in IELTS Writing

Contraction words are also linking words commonly used in ielts essay writing. These words can be used in Ielts writing to add value to your work and boost your band score.

Contracted words	Uncontract words	Contracted words	Uncontract words
Don’t	Do not	Who’ll	Who will
Can’t	Can not	Who’s	Who has
Shouldn’t	Should not	Which’s	Which has
Couldn’t	Could not	-‘re	Are
Wouldn’t	Would not	-‘ll	Will
Isn’t	Is not	-‘s	Is
Haven’t	Have not	I’m	I am
Hasn’t	Has not	Let’s	Let us
Aren’t	Are not	N’t	Not
Here’s	Here is	-‘d	Had
I’ve	I have	To’ve	To have
I’d	I had	Those’ve	Those have
I’ll	I will	These’ve	These have
It’s	It is	‘twas	It was
Mustn’t	Must not	Wanna	Want to
She’s	She is	There’ll	There will
He’s	He is	Why’d	Why did
She’ll	She will	Why’s	Why has
Doesn’t	Does not	Why’re	Why are
Couldn’t	Could not	They’ll	They will
Didn’t	Did not
You’d	You had
You’ve	You have
O’er	Over
Ol’	Old
Ne’er	Never
‘s	Is
O’clock	Of the clock
Needn’t	Need not

Contraction words are used in International English Language System (IELTS) and are made by shortening and combining two words. They are also shortened form of a word or group of words that omits certain letters or sounds and an apostrophe is used to show/ indicate the place of the omitted letters

Example of contraction words are:

Can’t (Can+not)

Don’t (Do+not)

These contraction words are mostly used by people in both speaking (for written dialogue), informal writing (text message) and in formal writing (academic papers, proposals etc.) and where there is space (adverts). They make writing and speech seem friendly and accessible

The most common contractions are made of verb or auxiliaries attached to other words.

In English, contractions are used to combine words in casual speech writing by dropping one or more letters.

You can add more of contraction words that you know in iels writing…Thanks!

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