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Contractions Worksheet 1 
Contractions with Cowgirls!

Part One: Identifying Contracting Pairs

Circle the words that can be contracted. There may be more than one.

1. Rootin' Tootin' Tanya is not afraid of any cowpoke or cattle rustler.

2. She has been shooting the wings off flies since she was knee-high.

3. Bad Barb came around and asked, "Where did she go?" 
		
4. I am sure that Tanya would have been happy to hear that we told ol' Barb the truth.

5. If she is desperate for a date with death, she will meet Rootin' Tootin' Tanya at Rattle Snake Canyon.

6. Well just as sure as the morning comes, she had taken the bait.

7.  Bad Barb could not have made a lonelier sight then when she galloped off alone. 

8. It will only be a matter of time until Bad Barb gets what she has got coming to her.

9. When Bad Barb saw Tanya, ol' Barb worried that she might have bitten off more than a mouthful.  

10. Rootin' Tootin' Tanya was twirling her side arms and said, "You should not have come here, Barb."

11. "That will be that last time you talk down to me, Tanya," said Barb as she drew.

12. The two cowgirls locked eyes and wondered who would make the first move. 

13. "I can not help but to talk down to you, Barb, as you are so much shorter than I," said Tanya.

14. Bad Barb smirked and said, "That is it, Tanya," and then she squeezed her trigger. 

15. "Let us go then," laughed Tanya as the water blast from Barb's squirt gun breezed past her. 

Part Two: Forming Contractions

Complete each of the following tasks.

1. Write a sentence in which you make a contraction using the word "not."

2. Write a sentence in which you make a contraction using the word "are."

3. Write a sentence in which you make a contraction using the word "will."

4. Write a sentence in which you make a contraction using the word "did."

5.  Write a sentence in which you make a contraction using the word "why."