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Contractions: Suck It In
Creating contractions is another useful skill, right up there with knowing how to work an ATM, execute a three-point turn, and rappel down a cliff. Fortunately, it's much easier to learn how to form contractions than it is to work an ATM or do a three-point turn. I'm not even going to discuss mountain-type stuff like rappelling.
Using contractions adds a more informal tone to your writing and reproduces the spoken word more accurately in your prose.
The basic rule for forming a contraction is a snap: to combine two words, just insert an apostrophe in the space where the letter or letters have been omitted. Here are some examples.
I + am = I'm
you + are = you're
he + is = he's
we + are = we're