http://www.ck12.org Chapter 11. Punctuation
Ex. my brother-in-law’s money
- Add [’s] to the last noun to show joint possession of an object.
Ex. Tom and Monica’s house
Apostrophes are also used in. We define a contraction as a word in which one or more letters have been omitted.
The apostrophe shows this omission.
Examples
- don’t = do not
- I’m = I am
- he’ll = he will
- you’re = you are
- won’t = will not
- could’ve = could have
Review Questions
For each sentence, insert missing apostrophes or omit unnecessary apostrophes.
- Jack’s and Jill’s hill is nothing more than a mound of dirt on the southwest corner of Farmer Johns land.
- One’s labor is proportional to ones’ wealth.
- George shouldn’t say that he’ll be in the library when he obviously wont.
- Ill be back.
- Who’ll referee those kid’s soccer game if not for you’re brother.
Dashes and Parentheses
Use dashes to set off or emphasize the content enclosed within them or the content that follows a dash. Dashes
place more emphasis on the enclosed content than either parentheses or commas. We also use dashes to set off an
appositivephrase that already includes commas.
An appositive is a word or phrase that adds explanatory or clarifying information to the noun that precedes it.
Example 1- The U.S.S. Constitution became known as “Old Ironsides” during the War of 1812—during which the
cannonballs fired from the British H.M.S. Guerriere merely bounced off the sides of the Constitution.