What are contractions in the language English?
How Gonna to Going to, etc.
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There are a lot of different contractions in English.
"Gonna" is informal for "going to", just like "want to" and "wanna".
Among formal contractions you have:
There is -> there's
There are -> there're (although you rarely see it written this way)
I am -> I'm
He is -> he's
She is -> she's
It is -> it's (do not confuse with possessive "its")
They are -> they're
We are -> we're
Are not -> aren't
Is not -> isn't
Could not -> couldn't
Would not -> wouldn't
Should not -> shouldn't
Must not -> mustn't
There are a bunch of others, especially those that depict how the words sound when spoken as opposed to correct spelling:
Old -> ol'
About -> 'bout
Them -> 'em
And -> an'
I'm -> Ah'm
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