From 59098d75c74c062e4c07673065e3fae66180936e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dualfroz <me@dualfroz.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2026 16:10:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Contract 'can not' to can't, and 'did not' and 'were not' too

---
 src/2-two/contraction-two/api/contract.js |  5 ++++-
 tests/two/contractions/contract.test.js   | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/2-two/contraction-two/api/contract.js b/src/2-two/contraction-two/api/contract.js
index c697bf7..e9e93c2 100644
--- a/src/2-two/contraction-two/api/contract.js
+++ b/src/2-two/contraction-two/api/contract.js
@@ -46,8 +46,11 @@ const contract = function () {
   m = doc.match('#Person would')
   setContraction(m, `'d`)
   // would not -> wouldn't
-  m = doc.match('(is|was|had|would|should|could|do|does|have|has|can) not')
+  m = doc.match('(is|was|were|had|would|should|could|do|does|did|have|has) not')
   setContraction(m, `n't`)
+  // can not -> can't
+  m = doc.match('can not')
+  setContraction(m, `'t`)
   // i have -> i've
   m = doc.match('(i|we|they) have')
   setContraction(m, `'ve`)
diff --git a/tests/two/contractions/contract.test.js b/tests/two/contractions/contract.test.js
index 79f153b..fe64afb 100644
--- a/tests/two/contractions/contract.test.js
+++ b/tests/two/contractions/contract.test.js
@@ -74,3 +74,20 @@ test('multiple contraction in sentence', function (t) {
   t.equal(doc.match('he is dead').length, 2, here + 'multi-contraction-count')
   t.end()
 })
+
+test('contract negatives', function (t) {
+  const arr = [
+    ['I can not go', `I can't go`],
+    ['You Can not go', `You Can't go`],
+    ['i did not go', `i didn't go`],
+    ['they were not here', `they weren't here`],
+  ]
+  arr.forEach(a => {
+    const doc = nlp(a[0])
+    doc.contract()
+    t.equal(doc.text(), a[1], here + a[0])
+    doc.contractions().expand()
+    t.equal(doc.text(), a[0], here + 'expand ' + a[0])
+  })
+  t.end()
+})