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
• My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs.
• I was trying to find out the rule about using apostrophes with acronyms or abbreviations.
• My fellow citizens is an apostrophe, a formal address to an audience, whose distance has been shortened by the insertion of the ad hominem term fellow—that is, an ingratiating suggestion to his audience that they start out on his side. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
• 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.