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.
