{"id":1642,"date":"2015-08-22T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2018-11-27T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T14:37:33","slug":"abbreviation-contraction-%d0%b2-%d1%87%d0%b5%d0%bc-%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b7%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%b8%d0%b5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/?p=1642","title":{"rendered":"ABBREVIATION &#038; CONTRACTION &#8211; \u0432 \u0447\u0435\u043c \u0440\u0430\u0437\u043b\u0438\u0447\u0438\u0435"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>ABBREVIATION &amp; CONTRACTION<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Abbreviation &#8211; \u0441\u0438\u043d\u043e\u043d\u0438\u043c\u044b:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>abridgement, contraction<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An <i>abbreviation<\/i> is a shortening by any method; a <i>contraction<\/i> is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts. A <i>contraction<\/i> of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements; an <i>abbreviation<\/i> may be made either by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part; a <i>contraction<\/i>is an <i>abbreviation<\/i>, but an <i>abbreviation<\/i> is not necessarily a <i>contraction<\/i>; <i>rec&#8217;t<\/i> for receipt, <i>mdse.<\/i>for merchandise, and <i>Dr.<\/i> for debtor are <i>contractions<\/i>; they are also <i>abbreviations<\/i>; <i>Am.<\/i> for American is an <i>abbreviation<\/i>, but not a <i>contraction<\/i>. <i>Abbreviation<\/i> and <i>contraction<\/i> are used of words and phrases, <i>abridgment<\/i> of books, paragraphs, sentences, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dimakoropenko.com\" target=\"_blank\">\u041f\u043e\u0434\u0433\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0432\u043a\u0430 \u043a IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, GMAT, GRE, CPE \u043f\u043e \u0421\u043a\u0430\u0439\u043f\u0443! \u0413\u0430\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0438\u044f.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABBREVIATION &amp; CONTRACTION Abbreviation &#8211; \u0441\u0438\u043d\u043e\u043d\u0438\u043c\u044b: abridgement, contraction An abbreviation is a shortening by any method; a contraction is a reduction of size by the drawing together of the parts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[719,718],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-abbreviation-vs-contraction","tag---abbreviation--contraction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}