Apostrophes and You

[paulgiamatti]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You can drop any one or two of those apostrophes and the word is still just as technically "correct".

Meaning if you were to drop the apostrophe in lieu of the subtracted letters.

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

contractions simply can't be used to abbreviate words in the past tense, because all you'd be doing is replacing one letter with an apostrophe.

Meaning for the sole purpose of shortening only the past tense component of that word. Obviously you can still abbreviate past tense words, e.g., "Dude, you totally got fo'c's'led.