2023年5月18日 · Apostrophe use: Contractions and omissions. A contraction is a shortened form of a word or group of words that omits certain letters or sounds. In a contraction, an …

The apostrophe is a punctuation mark used to mark omissions and possessives of nouns and pronouns.

We sometimes connect two words to make one shorter word. We use an apostrophe to show that we have left out one or more letters: They don’t like salt in their food. It’s a long way to walk. …

We will cover all four uses of the apostrophe in detail later in the lesson. For now, here are more examples of the four ways to use apostrophes with a key observation for each one: (1) To …

2022年2月1日 · An apostrophe is a punctuation mark that is most often used to form possessive nouns, to represent omitted letters, and to form some plurals. An apostrophe resembles a …

Apostrophes are used in contractions. A contraction is a word (or set of numbers) in which one or more letters (or numbers) have been omitted. The apostrophe shows this omission. …

2022年9月1日 · Apostrophes look like single quotation marks, but they’re used alone rather than in pairs. Apostrophes mainly indicate that letters have been omitted, or they show a noun’s …