Apostrophes

1. Final Presentation
By shanice Walker
English 102
Cline Laura
12/09/2012

2. Apostrophes
What is an apostrophe?
Is making a statement of ownership
Its has three uses……
 Form possessives of nouns
 Show omission of letters
 Indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.

3. Apostrophes Possessive vs.Contractions
Possessive Contractions
 A shortened version of the
 When an apostrophes is word
present it showing that
 Joining to words together by
something belongs to dropping a letter and replacing
someone and adding a apostrophe
 Adding the singular and  Common in formal writing
plural form of the word  To create contraction place
Example: Amber‟s book apostrophes where omitted
letters would go
 Add just („) to the plural form Example: Don‟t=Do not
that doesn‟t end in “s”
Isnt= is not
Example: five boys‟ sweaters
Wasn‟t= was not

4. Examples
Singular Possession Plural Possession
 When a noun stands for one  describe more than one person,
thing, it is singular. thing or idea
 You don‟t need to add an extra
„s‟ to plural nouns that already
 Common nouns: become end with the letter „s‟. put
possessive when they show apostrophe to the end to
ownership of another noun. indicate that the plural noun is
now a plural possessive noun.
Ex: "the water in the town"
 Ex:-The girl(s‟) ball went under
becomes "the town's water."
the car
-teacher‟s class  -Companie(s‟) employess

5. Indicating possession
when two nouns are
joined together.
• If writing about two people or
two places that share ownership
of an object, than indicate
possession only once by adding
apostrophe to the second noun.
• Example: Nathalie and
Amanda(‟s) cheer competition is
Saturday
• John and Michael's graduation
had a live band.

6. Indicating possession when two nouns are joined,
and ownership is separate.
When two nouns indicate ownership, but the ownership is separate, each noun gets the
apostrophe + s.
Tricky yes!!! I know but hopefully my example gives you an idea of what I‟m trying to say.
Example: Jessica‟s and Amanda‟s rooms are painted purple and blue.

7. Cited
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/apostrophe-1.aspx
How to apply apostrophes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSVOsgMum0
Scocco, Daniel. “The Possessive Apostrophe” . Daily writing tips. 22 Jun
2007. Web. 09 Dec 2012. www.dailywritingtips.com/the-possessive-
apostrophe/