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The Valuable Apostrophe: Its Contractions and Possessives

Explore the important roles of contractions and possessives with the apostrophe! Learn how to correctly use apostrophes in contractions and possessive forms, and discover why they don't make plurals. Improve your grammar skills with this helpful guide!

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The Valuable Apostrophe: Its Contractions and Possessives

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  1. What’s my name?

  2. When I am down low on the line I am called a comma ,

  3. When I am up high I am called an apostrophe ’

  4. An apostrophe has 2 jobs. • I make contractions. I’m in a contraction now! And other contractions like... can’t don’t isn’t I’ve we’re he’ll she’d what’s

  5. 2. My second job is to make possessives! What’s a possessive? Possessive means belongs to. Teresa’s house Ryan’s bike Kevin’s glasses José’s shoes

  6. Some people want to make me do more jobs—like make plurals. (Remember plurals mean 2 or more.) But I don’t make plurals! That’s not my job! I have two cat’s. Brandon ate 6 pizza’s. I have two cats. Brandon ate 6 pizzas.

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