The act of leaving out a word or words from a sentence deliberately, when the meaning can be understood without them. . . . . . . . An apostrophe is a small punctuation mark ( ' ) placed after a noun to show that the noun owns something. The apostrophe will always be placed either before or after an s at the end of the noun owner. Always the noun owner will be followed (usually immediately) by the thing it owns.
Children's
Childrens'
Mother-in-lawes
Mother-in-law's
Mother-in-laws
Everybody's
Everybodies
Everybodys
Its
It's
True
False
True
False
True
False
Hey . . . what are you doing?
Hey. . .what are you doing?
Hey...what are you doing?
She walks in beauty like the night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And all that's best of dark and bright meets in her aspect and her eyes:
She walks in beauty like the night ................................... And all that's best of dark and bright meets in her aspect and her eyes:
She walks in beauty like the night And all that's best of dark and bright meets in her aspect and her eyes:
Wings
Wing's
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