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How to spell i'll

What it means: A contraction for 'I will'.

In a sentence: I'll paint a picture with lots of bright colors! ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l, and an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as ill or I,ll.

Same family: I will, you'll, we'll, they'll, he'll. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “I'll” is a contraction formed by shortening “I will” and adding an apostrophe, a pattern that became common in English writing by the 17th century. The apostrophe marks the missing letters from “will,” making speech faster and more natural in everyday conversation.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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