• Learn the definition of an apostrophe
• Study usage of apostrophes

• An apostrophe looks like this:

        ' or ’

• An apostrophe is used to:

• indicate omitted letters such as abbreviations and contractions

• indicate possession

• form the plural noun for abbreviations and symbols where adding just s instead of ’s would be confusing

• Note: personal possessive pronouns (his, hers, yours, theirs, its, etc.) do not take an apostrophe

• Apostrophes used to indicate omitted letters

• abbreviations

• government = gov't

• contractions

• cannot = can't

• it is = it's

• Apostrophes used to indicate possession

• Oliver's army

• James's crown

• Apostrophes used to form the plural noun for abbreviations and symbols where adding just s instead of ’s would be confusing

• mind your p's and q's