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Example sentences for: apostrophes
How can you use “apostrophes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The advice to the consumer, Just keep the apostrophes straight.
On apostrophes (John Felts's Safire's Syndrome), I have occasionally wondered if I need an apostrophe if the word already has an apostrophe.
So let us note: James Joyce's novel is Finnegans Wake (1939), not “Finnegan's,” E. M. Forster's is Howards End (1910) (another house name, by the way), not “Howard's,” and, a potential double delusion, Shakespeare's famous play is Love's Labour's Lost (1598), with two apostrophes.
Likewise, a bit of juggling with apostrophes, quotation marks, and capitals is permitted, always on the understanding that no punctuation or spelling rules are infringed.
The Times reports that the new curriculum will include a reading list of classic works, and children will be expected to use capital letters and full stops [periods] correctly by the age of seven, commas by 11, apostrophes and speech marks by 13, and colons and semi-colons by 16.