Be-Affirmative And Negative Contractions

ESL Helpful Handouts Page 1 of 8 Free handout from http://sites.google.com/site/eslhelpfulhandouts. Written by S Watson. Photos: Bob Watson; www.morguefile.com. Be -Affirmative And Negative Contractions They’re happy. She’s happy. He’s happy. I’m happy. You’re happy. He’s happy. She’s happy. We’re happy. They’re happy. ESL Helpful Handouts Page 2 of 8 Free handout from http://sites.google.com/site/eslhelpfulhandouts. Written by S Watson. Photos: Bob Watson; www.morguefile.com. Be -Affirmative And Negative Contractions She’s not happy. He isn’t happy. I’m not happy. You’re not happy. He’s not happy. She’s not happy. We’re not happy. They’re not happy. I’m not happy. You aren’t happy. He isn’t happy. She isn’t happy. We aren’t happy. They aren’t happy. ESL Helpful Handouts Page 3 of 8 Free handout from http://sites.google.com/site/eslhelpfulhandouts. Written by S Watson. Photos: Bob Watson; www.morguefile.com. Be -Affirmative And Negative Contractions It’s Winter. It’s cold. It’s Summer. It’s not cold. It isn’t cold. It’s cold. It’s not cold. It isn’t cold. ESL Helpful Handouts Page 4 of 8 Free handout from http://sites.google.com/site/eslhelpfulhandouts. Written by S Watson. Photos: Bob Watson; www.morguefile.com. Be -Affirmative And Negative Contractions A contraction is 2 words that are put together with an apostrophe. Make an affirmative contraction with a pronoun and be ( am, is, are). Put together the pronoun and be (am, is, are) . I am = Iam Take out the first letter of be (am, is, are). Iam = Im Put in an apostrophe. Im = I’m Use a contraction when speaking. Use a contraction with informal writing. I’m young. I’m young. I’m young You’re young. He’s young. She’s young. It’s young. We’re young. They’re young. ESL Helpful Handouts Page 5 of 8 Free handout from http://sites.google.com/site/eslhelpfulhandouts. Written by S Watson. Photos: Bob Watson; www.morguefile.com. Be -Affirmative And Negative Contractions One way to make a negative contraction is to put together the pronoun and be (am, is, are). Then put not behind be (am, is, are). Put together the pronoun and be (am, is, are). She is = Sheis Take out the first letter of be (am, is, are). Sheis = Shes Put in an apostrophe. Shes = She’s Put not behind be (am, is, are). She’s = She’s not Not makes the sentence negative. She’s not young. She’s not young. I’m not young. You’re not young. He’s not young. She’s not young. It’s not young. We’re not young. They’re not young. ESL Helpful Handouts Page 6 of 8 Free handout from http://sites.google.com/site/eslhelpfulhandouts. Written by S Watson. Photos: Bob Watson; www.morguefile.com. Be -Affirmative And Negative Contractions Another way to make a negative contraction is to put together be (am, is, are) and not. Do this with every pronoun except I . Put together be (am, is, are) and not . is not = isnot Take out the o in not. isnot = isnt Put in the apostrophe. isn’t He isn’t young. He isn’t young. I’m not young You aren’t young. He isn’t young. She isn’t young. It isn’t young. We aren’t young. They aren’t young. ESL Helpful Handouts Page 7 of 8 Free handout from http://sites.google.com/site/eslhelpfulhandouts. Written by S Watson. Photos: Bob Watson; www.morguefile.com. Be -Affirmative And Negative Contractions Practice. Vocabulary happy sad cold hot young old short tall big small easy difficult Change the sentence to make a sentence with an affirmative contraction. Example: I am happy. I’m happy._ I am young. __________________________________________________________________________ He is short. __________________________________________________________________________ It is easy. __________________________________________________________________________ We are cold. __________________________________________________________________________ She is sad. ___________________________________________________________________________ They are tall. ___________________________________________________________________________ You are old. ___________________________________________________________________________ Change the sentence to make a sentence with a contraction and not. Example: It is not small. __It’s not small.__ You are not short. _______________________________________________________________________ We are not happy. _______________________________________________________________________ They are not sad. _______________________________________________________________________ It is not easy. ___________________________________________________________________________ She is not tall. ____________________________________________________________________________ He is not big. ___________________________________________________________________________ ESL Helpful Handouts Page 8 of 8 Free handout from http://sites.google.com/site/eslhelpfulhandouts. Written by S Watson. Photos: Bob Watson; www.morguefile.com. Be -Affirmative And Negative Contractions Vocabulary happy sad cold hot young old short tall big small easy difficult Change the sentence to make a sentence with a negative contraction. Example: She is not old . __She isn’t old.__ We are not happy. _______________________________________________________________________ They are not cold. _______________________________________________________________________ She is not tall. ____________________________________________________________________________ I am not young. ____________________________________________________________________________ It is not hot. ______________________________________________________________________________ I am not happy. ____________________________________________________________________________ You are not sad. ____________________________________________________________________________ It is not difficult. ____________________________________________________________________________ Unscramble the words and write the sentence. Example: isn’t/happy/She __She isn’t happy.__ easy/isn’t/It _____________________________________________________________________________ cold/We’re ______________________________________________________________________________ They’re/sad/not _________________________________________________________________________ aren’t/happy/You _________________________________________________________________________