What is the difference between contraction and elision? [closed]
Solution 1:
An elision refers specifically to the removal of sounds from speech, while a contraction refers to a shortened version of writing words, that can represent that spoken elision in English. A contraction though is not always a written representation of that elision because a contraction can represent other things as well.
Additionally, an elision is NOT always turned into a contraction in writing, though.