{"id":8834,"date":"2010-01-29T22:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T03:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2010-01-29T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T03:41:03","slug":"a-short-primer-on-apostrophe-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2010\/01\/a-short-primer-on-apostrophe-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short Primer on Apostrophe Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/60px-Apostrophe_svg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8836\" style=\"margin-left: 14px; margin-right: 14px;\" title=\"60px-Apostrophe_svg\" src=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/60px-Apostrophe_svg.png\" alt=\"60px-Apostrophe_svg\" width=\"60\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>For those of you who list mastery of apostrophe usage with the rest of your New Year\u2019s resolutions, here is a short primer:<\/p>\n<p>1. Use an apostrophe to indicate possession.<\/p>\n<p>2. Place the apostrophe before the \u201cs\u201d when referring to a singular entity. For example, \u201cthe dog\u2019s food bowl is in the kitchen.\u201d Or, \u201cKaren\u2019s house is on the right.\u201d\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>3. Place the apostrophe after the \u201cs\u201d when referring to a plural entity. For example, \u201cthe rabbits\u2019 nest is in the grass.\u201d Or, \u201cthe Smiths\u2019 boat is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cIt\u2019s\u201d indicates a contraction of the words \u201cit\u201d and \u201cis.\u201d \u201cIts\u201d indicates possession. For example, \u201cit\u2019s in the works.\u201d (Meaning, it is in the works.) Or, \u201cit\u2019s time for a nap.\u201d (Meaning, it is time for a nap.) If you can replace \u201cit is\u201d in the sentence, \u201cit\u2019s\u201d is a correct contraction. But, \u201cthe beaver worked hard on building its dam across the pond.\u201d (Meaning, the beaver\u2019s dam.)<\/p>\n<p>5. A debate exists about whether to add an additional \u201cs\u201d when using an apostrophe with a word that ends in \u201cs.\u201d Either option is generally acceptable these days, although some people have strong feelings on the matter. For example, \u201cBess\u2019 cake is in the oven.\u201d Or, \u201cBess\u2019s cake is in the oven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone seen any humorous or outrageous apostrophe usage lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who list mastery of apostrophe usage with the rest of your New Year\u2019s resolutions, here is a short primer: 1. Use an apostrophe to indicate possession. 2. Place the apostrophe before the \u201cs\u201d when referring to a singular entity. For example, \u201cthe dog\u2019s food bowl is in the kitchen.\u201d Or, \u201cKaren\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}