5 example of apostrophe

Answer 1

• "Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:

  England hath need of thee . . .."

  (William Wordsworth, "London, 1802")

• "Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art"

  (John Keats)

• "Science! True daughter of Old Time thou art!"

  (Edgar Allan Poe, "To Science")

• "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. . . . Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."

  (James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

• "Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone

  Without a dream in my heart

  Without a love of my own.

  (Lorenz Hart, "Blue Moon")

• "O stranger of the future!

  O inconceivable being!

  whatever the shape of your house,

  however you scoot from place to place,

  no matter how strange and colorless the clothes you may wear,

  I bet nobody likes a wet dog either.

  I bet everyone in your pub,

  even the children, pushes her away."

  (Billy Collins, "To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now")

Answer 2

The boy's hair was brown.

The girl's doll was ceramic.

My friends' house was big (More than one friend)

My friend's house was big (Only one friend)

Don't worry about a thing (Don't is a contraction for do not)

It's a long way to the city (It's is a contraction for it is)