Punctuation
Apostrophes
Apostrophes are used with:
- Singlar possessive nouns: Bill�s house
- Plural possessive nouns: Teachers� classes
- Nouns showing joint possession: Bill and Hillary�s house
- Possessive indefinite pronouns: Someone�s house, everyone's problem
- Contractions: Wouldn�t, couldn�t, shouldn�t
- Missing numbers: the blizzard of �76
Apostrophes are not used with:
- Nouns that are not possessive: The Smiths are home.
- Possessive Pronouns: Its, whose, his, hers, ours, yours, and theirs
- Plural numbers: Figure 8s
- Plural letters: There are two Ys in psychology.
- Plural abbreviations: IOUs
- Plurals mentioned as words: The ayes have it.
