Exercícios sobre Contracted Form

Retire a contração das frases abaixo:

a) I’m so happy to be here with you.

b) I think she'd like to watch it.

c) Where’s the cake?

d) I’m sorry but it’s her place.

e) He'd finished all his homework.

Faça a abreviação correta das palavras do trecho a seguir que podem sofrer esse processo:

“Since his announcement, I have tried yelling, begging, pleading, and crying, but nothing has convinced him otherwise. And now I have a new student visa and a passport, each declaring me: Anna Oliphant, citizen of the United States of America. And now I am here with my parents—unpacking my belongings in a room smaller than my suitcase—the newest senior at the School of America in Paris. It is not that I am ungrateful. I mean, it is Paris. The City of Light! The most romantic city in the world! Ever since he sold out and started writing lame books that were turned into even lamer movies, he has been trying to impress his big-shot New York friends with how cultured and rich he is.” – Anna and The French Kiss

PERKINS, Stephanie. Anna and the French Kiss. 2° ed. Nova York: Dutton Children's Books, 2010. 372 p. (p.6)

Complete os espaços em branco com as abreviações correspondentes.

They'd - Wasn’t - He'll - Shouldn’t – Haven’t

a) I ____________seen you before.

b) I think you ________________ do it.

c) My mother said ____________ like to help us.

d) I believe ____________ return.

e) He ___________there when I needed.

Transcreva as frases abaixo sem abreviações:

a) He’d stopped trying to bring her back.

b) I don’t know anything about it.

c) I guess I’ve heard of it.

d) But I couldn’t find anything.

e) You can’t sit there.