Words similar to apostrophe
Example sentences for: apostrophe
How can you use “apostrophe” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
By 1988 the editors of Dorland's 28th edition had deleted three eponymous entries for hyperthyroidism, retaining Graves but now as Graves disease , the second s and its possessive apostrophe banished.
Unable to afford a professional slogan, something hip and hot and happenin' (Do the kids still say happenin' with the apostrophe and all, or is there some swingin' new punctuation?)
The apostrophe has much to answer for here, as it does in everyday English.
The device is not without its pitfalls however, as witness the following: Henry David's a Restaurant . The combination of the possessive and the apposition creates a solecism unless we assume that a word was omitted--perhaps Pub or Saloon . I have passed the sign several times in the past few years and recently noted that it had been cleaned and repainted, but the apostrophe remains.
There, possessive is defined as having possession and apostrophe as In rhetoric, a diversion of speech to another person or In grammar, the contraction of a word; as, tho', for though.
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