Apostrophes

An apostrophe is a punctuation mark used to indicate possession or the omission of letters in contractions.

A possessive apostrophe shows that something belongs to someone or something, e.g., 'the cat's toy' means the toy belongs to the cat.

A contraction is a shortened form of two words combined, where some letters are omitted, e.g., 'can't' is a contraction of 'cannot'.

To form the possessive of a singular noun, add an apostrophe followed by 's', e.g., 'the dog's leash'.

For plural nouns that end in 's', add only an apostrophe after the 's', e.g., 'the dogs' park'.

'Its' is a possessive pronoun meaning 'belonging to it', while 'it's' is a contraction for 'it is' or 'it has'.

The correct contraction for 'they are' is 'they're'.

The correct possessive form is 'Jess's'.

The contraction 'I'd' stands for 'I would'.

To form the plural of a noun, typically add 's' or 'es' to the end of the word, e.g., 'cat' becomes 'cats'.