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Example sentences for: apostrophe

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Written in 18 th century English ("magical" is spelled "magickal," for example, and the predominant punctuation marks are the dash and the apostrophe), it tells the picaresque tale of two astronomers best known for surveying the Mason-Dixon line, which separates Pennsylvania from Maryland and the American cultural North from the cultural South.
On apostrophes (John Felts's Safire's Syndrome), I have occasionally wondered if I need an apostrophe if the word already has an apostrophe.
A step size is drawn at random from a triangular distribution centered at zero with range [- μ ,+ μ ]. The first of the two chosen parameters is incremented by the chosen step size, and the second is decremented by the same quantity, so that is maintained, where the apostrophe indicates a proposed parameter value.
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.
"Sex, when it happens" for newlyweds, reports the Journal , "is often an apostrophe, not an exclamation point."