Apostrophes

Apostrophes ( ' )

The apostrophe likes to walk on the wild side. They're these teeny, tiny punctuation marks that are majorly misused every single day.

We use apostrophe for three things:

- To show possession

- To replace omitted letters (contractions)

- To show plural letters, numbers, and symbols

Multiple Select

What do we use apostrophes for?

• Every time there is an 's' at the end a word

• To show possession

• Contractions

• To make any word plural

Possessive Nouns

• Add 's to the end of a noun to make it possessive.

• Catherine's homework looks great!

• My aunt's house is yellow

• That dog is Martin's.

Note: Do NOT use apostrophes with possessive pronouns!

• It's = it is

• Its + possessive

• who's = who is

• whose = possessive

Multiple Choice

Does the underlined word need an apostrophe?

Its favourite toy is the tennis ball.

• Yes

• No

Contractions

• Add an apostrophe to replace the missing letters in a contraction.

• cannot = can't

• should not = shouldn't

• it is = it's