The phrase "use contractions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to remind someone to use contractions in their writing. For example, "When writing dialogue, remember to use contractions to make the speech sound natural."
Don't use contractions in formal writing.
And the inability to use contractions, as I cannot find the apostrophe...
And I think the fact that he didn&apos t often use contractions in his writing helps contribute to their seemingly subdued, formal, even elegiac manner.
This time, he populates a preindustrial Pennsylvania village with an impressive cast of elders and youngsters, who almost never use contractions and who live in fear of some scary creatures in the surrounding woods.
And all the letters contained a linguistic habit that, Leonard testified, he had found nowhere else: a tendency to use contractions in negative statements ("I can't") but not in positive ones ("I am").
The tone also led to the choice not to use contractions, and to capitalize "I" as well as place names, which seemed overly distracting to English readers when lowercase.
"They use contraction to constrict the wound site so they don't actually have to regenerate much tissue at all," he explained.
Mr. Mann and Mr. Mamet often write characters who speak without using contractions, who take great pains to be unmistakably clear.
Mr. Mann has a predilection for brooding, no-nonsense machismo; in movies like "Heat" and "Thief," his 1981 directorial debut, his characters rarely used contractions.
Katia Vega, a beauty technology designer at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, has created a prototype whereby people wearing the electronic make-up can operate lights and control aerial drones using contractions of their eye muscles.
We know he is serious because he dresses in a coolie costume and speaks slowly, without using contractions ("I do not wish to fight you" is a typical bit of banter).
