sentence: People use abbreviations for words that they write a lot.
sentences_before: An 'abbreviation' is a shorter way to write a word or phrase.
sentences_after: The English language occasionally uses the apostrophe mark ' to show that a word is written in a shorter way, but some abbreviations do not use this mark. More often, they use periods, especially the ones that come from the Latin language.
concept_name: People
headings: Abbreviation
categories: Linguistics