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How to spell she'd

hear it/ʃid/pronounSilent and tricky

What it means: A short form of 'she would'.

In a sentence: She'd love to play with the puppies if she could.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as shed or she d.

Same family: she, her, hers, she'll, she's. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The contraction "she'd" combines "she" with either "had" or "would" and began appearing in English writing in the 17th century, following a growing trend of using apostrophes to show missing letters in commonly spoken phrases.

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