What is the difference between apostophe s or s apostphe?

Answer 1

Apostrophe S is used to describe possession of one person or thing (For example: "One boy has a book titled The Grapes of Wrath"; "The boy's book is The Grapes of Wrath."). In traditional English grammar, it is proper to add an apostrophe after names that end in "s" to denote possession, such as Jesus'; however this practice is changing to the apostrophe "s" form as in Jesus's.

You use S apostrophe to describe the possession of plurals, many people or things (For example: "Many boys share the tree house in that field," becomes "The boys' tree house is in that field.").

However, when denoting possession with the pronoun it, there is no apostrophe before or after the "s"; possession in this case is shown only by adding the "s" (its).

Contractions also employ the apostrophe S, such as let's (let us), and it's (it is).

Additional Information:

An apostrophe is a mark of punctuation, not a letter, and yet when one is improperly added or omitted it causes you to misspell. The apostrophe has several uses, all with some influence on spelling: to indicate the possessive case, to mark omission of letters, to indicate the plurals of letters and numbers. The use of an apostrophe influences both punctuation and spelling. For example,

1. Use an apostrophe and s to form the possessive case of a noun (singular or plural) not ending in s:

children, children's horse, horse's

doctor, doctor's town, town's

2. Use only an apostrophe to form the possessive case of a plural noun ending in s:

boys, boys' students, students'

ladies, ladies' weeks, weeks'

3. Use and apostrophe alone or an apostrophe with s to form the possessive of singular nouns ending in s:

Gene Simmons, Gene Simmons' (or Simmon's) Charles, Charles'

She liked Gene Simmons' (or Simmon's) poetry. This is Charles' hat.

4. In compound nouns, add the apostrophe and s to the last element of the expression, the on nearest the object possessed:

my son-in-law's guitar King Henry IV's funeral

somebody else's money the city manager's mansion

5. Use an apostrophe to show that letters or figures have been omitted.

aren't = are not they're = they are

don't = do not wasn't = was not

he's = he is weren't = were not

The Civil War was fought 1861-65. (1861 or 1865)

He left home in '59. (1959)

The use of the apostrophe is reflected in the most misspelled short and simple word in the English language. It's means "it is" and can never be correctly used its in the possessive sense: "When a dog wags its tail, that is a sign that it's happy." Never write the letters i-t-s without thinking whether or not you mean "it is".

6. Use an apostrophe and s to indicate the plurals of figures, letters and words considered as words.

Small children cannot always make legible 5's.

Uncrossed t's look like 1's.

He uses too many and's and but's in speaking.

7. Never use an apostrophe in forming the plural of nouns and the possessive case of personal relative prounouns.

The Gustafskis (not Gustafski's) came to see us.

Correct|Incorrectours|our's

ours|ours'

yours|your's

yours|yours'

his|his'

hers|her's

hers|hers'

its|it's

theirs|their's

theirs|theirs'

whose|who's