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Thus the characters replaced by the apostrophe in the previous examples are 'i' 'no' and 'o'. In contractions the characters are replaced for ease of pronunciation, in informal spoken and written English. Due to the

informal nature of contractions they should only ever be used very sparingly in formal written English. Their use is largely inappropriate for academic essays which by their very nature demand a formal and

precise form of English.

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