The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English it has two main functions: it marks omissions, and it assists in marking the possessives of nouns and some pronouns.
The apostrophe is also the most abused punctuation mark in the language. It only has two functions to perform and they're both straightforward, but still it gets pushed in where it doesn't belong or left out of where it wants to be.
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Too true!
I cant tell you how many of my student's misuse apostrophe's constantly. They are also terible spelers, and, overuse, commas all, the time.
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