We have discussed the primary use of apostrophes, which is to show possession or ownership as in, “The girl’s pet dog is cute” or “That man’s car is green.” Know this: apostrophes are NOT (never ever ever!) used for plurals or verb endings. She swim’s so fast. (Sorry, but…
Apostrophes are another small yet completely necessary form of punctuation that cause many errors and much unnecessary second-guessing as we write. Let’s discuss how we add “apostrophe s” (‘s) to show belonging, owning, or possessing. Examples: The man’s car is over there. (The car belongs to the man. Our friend’s…
The mistake of repeating ideas in our writing is easy to make. Repeating unnecessarily is called being redundant or redundancy. Most of the time, this happens when we are not paying enough attention as we write, but some students will try to “write more” by adding unnecessary words and becoming…