apostrophe

How To Use apostrophe In A Sentence

• Abbreviations with periods take ‘s when pluralized, which is probably because they look more awkward without apostrophes: Preposterous Apostrophes II: Pluralization « Motivated Grammar
• For the record, it's also not correct to use apostrophes to pluralize decades. Apostrophe Castastrophe
• Listing 11 shows an example of the escape sequences for a string that uses a single quote as an apostrophe.
• And unlike the elegies the sonnets are predominantly poems of invocation, apostrophe and direct address, he writes.
• No diacritic marks are normally used for native English words, unless the apostrophe and the diaeresis sign are counted as such.
• The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
• We all know that in English you form the possessive by adding an apostrophe.
• Let us note, first of all, that hyperbole and apostrophe are the forms of language not only most agreeable to it but also most necessary.
• If you've ever despaired over the misuses and misunderstandings, and just plain apathy around punctuation these days (errant apostrophes et al.) then this book will delight you.
• No diacritic marks are normally used for native English words, unless the apostrophe and the diaeresis sign are counted as such.