This site discusses the misuse of the apostrophe, such as using an apostrophe in a word which is a simple plural, now known as "greengrocer's apostrophe", the contraction it/it's, who's/whose, etc. A trend toward dropping the possessive apostrophe in certain advertising and social settings is discussed as well.

Concepts

possessives

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Additional Tags

apostrophe use, apostrophe use with names, greengrocer's apostrophe, names ending in -s, possessive apostrophe, apostrophe, possessive

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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