{"id":71681,"date":"2019-08-20T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T10:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71681"},"modified":"2019-08-20T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T10:56:20","slug":"uses-of-the-apostrophe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/uses-of-the-apostrophe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Uses of The Apostrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">We use <b>apostrophes (&#8216;)<\/b> for three main reasons.<\/p>\n<h5>Missing letters<\/h5>\n<p>It is used in writing a contraction to show the place of the omitted letters.<\/p>\n<p>can&#8217;t (= cannot)<br \/>\nit&#8217;s (= it is)<br \/>\nI&#8217;d (= I would\/had)<br \/>\nwho&#8217;s (= who is\/has)<\/p>\n<h5>Possessives<\/h5>\n<p>We use apostrophes in writing most possessives.<\/p>\n<p>the <b>girl&#8217;s <\/b>father<br \/>\nthree <b>miles&#8217;\u00a0<\/b>walk<br \/>\ntwo <b>weeks&#8217;\u00a0<\/b>work<br \/>\nmy <b>parents&#8217;\u00a0<\/b>wedding<\/p>\n<p>Possessive determiners and pronouns do not have apostrophes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is yours. (NOT &#8230;your&#8217;s.)<\/li>\n<li>Whose is that coat? (NOT Who&#8217;s&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Special plurals<\/h5>\n<p>Apostrophes are used in the plurals of letters, and often of numbers and abbreviations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mind your p&#8217;s and q&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>It was in the early 1960&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use apostrophes (&#8216;) for three main reasons. Missing letters It is used in writing a contraction to show the place of the omitted letters. can&#8217;t (= cannot) it&#8217;s (= it is) I&#8217;d (=&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[757,758],"class_list":["post-71681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-apostrophe","tag-use-of-apostrophe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71682,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71681\/revisions\/71682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}