• 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