Glossary

apostrophe (') (in language)

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  • English First Additional Language
  • English Home Language

in language: a punctuation mark used to show either possession, e.g. the girl's bags (the bags belonging to one girl), or contraction (also called omission), e.g. don't instead of do not, I'm instead of I am. (The apostrophe stands in the place of the missing letters.)