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The apostrophe has three main purposes. It is used to form most possessives, to create plural forms, and to indicate the omission of letters and digits in numbers.
- An apostrophe is used to denote the possessive form of nouns and indefinite pronouns.
- Children's entertainment
- Graham's bicycle
- Anyone's belief
- The boys' scoutmaster
- The Browns' car
- Arkansas's governor
- The girl's sweater
- Apostrophes are sometimes used to form plurals of words, letters, numerals, abbreviations, and symbols referred to as words.
- Dot your i's
- Three 6's or three 6s
- Two c's in acceleration
- A group of B-52's
- Apostrophes indicate the omissions of letters and digits in numbers. The letters may have been omitted due to the contraction of a single word or two or more words, or to a desire to imitate informal speech.
- Wasn't
- can't
- don't
- I'd prefer to
- They're
- She'd rather
- He's had it
- Ass'n
- Dep't
- the spirit of '76
- the class of 2006
- during the 60's
- they were singin'
- Ma'am
- sou'wester
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