Punctuation—Apostrophe (')

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English Language Arts

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Apostrophe Uses

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Apostrophes are used to:

indicate a contraction
show possession

The word following an apostrophe is not capitalized.

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Indicate contractions

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Selina the inventor asking her cat why it keeps eating the plants.

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Show possession

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Selina the inventor listening to her cat’s purr.

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For Advanced Users — Additional Apostrophe Uses

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Additional Apostrophe Uses

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In some situations, the apostrophe can be used to indicate the plural for letters, numbers and symbols.

Plural letters

Plural numbers

Plural symbols

Dot the i’s and cross the t’s.

Catch some z’s.

The system uses 1’s and 0’s.

You need to roll 7’s to win.

She uses a lot of #’s (hashtags) in her posts.

You are using too many !’s in your text.

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