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The apostrophe (Ↄ, ↄ, ’), also known as the apostrophus, is a punctuation mark used in writing. It is also a diacritic.
In English, it has two jobs:[1]
- To show where one or more letters have been left out, as in the abbreviation (contraction) of do not to don't.
- To show the possessive case, as in the cat’s whiskers.
- ↑ Quirk, Geenbaum, Leech & Svartvik, A comprehensive grammar of the English language. Longman, London & New York. p985 ISBN 0-582-51734-6