Parts of speech

I wanted to return to The English language again. I want to talk about Contractions. No, not the type that woman have during labor!

Contractions, along with an Apostrophe are used to shorten words.

In a world where everything seems to be abbreviated for our convenience to save time, unfortunately, even our language has fallen victim. Myself, I just feel that it is due to laziness, we cannot be bothered to write out the entire word. 

Here are some examples:

it's           it is

isn't          is not

don't         do not

haven't      have not

you're        you are

can't          cannot

There are many many more that I could give. I just wanted to give you an idea.