Example sentences for: apostrophes

How can you use “apostrophes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • On apostrophes (John Felts's Safire's Syndrome), I have occasionally wondered if I need an apostrophe if the word already has an apostrophe.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • To make our pages more attractive, we had been using quotation marks and apostrophes that curl left or right, as appropriate, rather than all-purpose marks that are straight vertical.


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