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  2. Wikipedia:List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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    Some acronyms are formed by contraction; these are covered at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations. Some trademarks (e.g. Nabisco) and titles of published works (e.g. “Ain't That a Shame”) consist of or contain contractions; these are covered at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles, respectively.

  3. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The list of auxiliary verbs in Modern English, along with their inflected forms, is shown in the following table. Contractions are only shown if their orthography is distinctive. There are also numerous unstressed versions that are typically, although not necessarily, written in the standard way. [12]: 242–248 For these, see a later section ...

  4. Contraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term ...

  5. Isometric exercise - Wikipedia

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    An isometric exercise is an exercise involving the static contraction of a muscle without any visible movement in the angle of the joint. The term "isometric" combines the Greek words isos (equal) and -metria (measuring), meaning that in these exercises the length of the muscle and the angle of the joint do not change, though contraction ...

  6. List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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  7. Eccentric training - Wikipedia

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    This movement has also been described as negative training. This "negative" movement is necessary to reverse the muscle from its initial trajectory. [1]When the load exceeds the force that can be developed by the muscle at a constant length, as in an eccentric muscle action, the exercise is referred to as involving negative work, because the muscle is absorbing energy.

  8. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    A list of what tend to be regarded as modal auxiliary verbs in Modern English, along with their inflected forms, is shown in the following table. Contractions are shown only if their orthography is distinctive. There are also unstressed versions that are typically, although not necessarily, written in the standard way. [4]

  9. Wikipedia talk:List of English contractions - Wikipedia

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    The page should separate the items into common contractions, slang/regional/archaic, and uncommon/improper. People looking this stuff up "ought'nt've" to get a list of gibberish just because "someone'd" decide to combine all possible suffixes. 174.20.45.107 01:10, 16 September 2016 (UTC)