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An apostrophe followed by an s can be used to denote ownership or a contraction of "is."
An example of " 's " being used to denote ownership is:
The girl's hair is brown.
This sentence conveys that the hair belonging to the girl is brown.
An example of " 's " being used to denote a contraction of the verb of being is:
The girl's running away.
Without the contraction of "is" this sentence would read "The girl is running away."
When conveying ownership through pronouns in English, the possessive pronouns are used.
" 's" is used with a pronoun only to convey a contraction of the pronoun + "is".
For example: She is playing ---> She's playing.
It is walking ---> It's walking.
But....
The dog belonging to her----> Her dog
The bowl belonging to it ----> Its bowl
Another thought: There is a pronoun that doesn't have its own possessive form and so we have to use pronoun + 's. It's the pronoun 'one' (albeit old-fashioned): 'One doesn't like to have so much mess in one's house.'
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