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Guide by Natcho
GRAMMAR GUIDE: APOSTROPHE.
What is an apostrophe?
' < That is an apostrophe, and you have probably seen it lots of times.
An apostrophe is used in many words– these include contractions, and possessive nouns. An example is the commonly used "you're", or for instance: "can't".
Apostrophe in contractions.
You may be wondering– where do we put the apostrophes exactly in contractions? Think for a moment: what is the full form of the word "you're"? …That's right, "you are". When turning this into a contraction, we remove the letter "A" and replace it with an apostrophe.
Let's look at another example, the contraction "she's". The full form of this is "she is". Thus, the letter "I" is removed and replaced with an apostrophe.
Do you see a pattern? The vowel of the second word of the phrase is always replaced with an apostrophe(in the more basic contractions). "That is" becomes "that's" and "they are" becomes "they're". Easy as that!
Apostrophe in possessive nouns.
In the sentence "Namjoon took Hoseok's sprite", we can see right away that the sprite Namjoon took belongs to Hoseok. This is because an apostrophe "s" in proper nouns like names turns the noun into what we call a possessive noun.
As the name suggests, a possessive noun suggests that something is in the possession of someone; in short, the object belongs to them. But what if something belongs to a group of people? Say, the classroom that belongs to the students. In this case, we would put this in a sentence as, "The students' classroom". Instead of the apostrophe being in front of the noun and behind the "s", it is in front of both. This works for names that end with an "s" too, like "James".
How NOT to use apostrophes.
I'll get straight to the point, so here's a list of examples and their reasons.
"I read book's" – There is NO NEED to add an apostrophe to make a singular noun plural. Just "books" is fine!
"He's time is up" – The possessive form of the noun "he" is "his". Do not just blindly add an apostrophe for everything. If you're not sure, search.
"It's mouth" – Adding an apostrophe after a non-proper noun is incorrect. "It's" also means "it is", so you are technically saying "it is mouth" instead of "the mouth belongs to it".
"The student's classroom" when you are referring to a group of students– I explained this earlier!
Finish.
That's all, and I hope this helped you!
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