How to use Apostrophe('s) while speaking English!

Use of Apostrophe S  (‘s)

Using an apostrophe to show possession/ownership

To show that something belongs to something (or someone).

Use an apostrophe after the noun and add the letter s:

Example-

• Ram’s book  / Book of Ram.
• My brother’s pen / The pen of my brother
• Mobile’s cover / The cover of mobile.
• Roy ‘s house/ The house of Roy.              
• My father’s friend’s son /The son of my father’s friend.

Important points-

When the singular form of the word already ends in an s, There is a two way to use Apostrophe(‘). Either you can simply put apostrophe sign (‘) after that word or you can add extra s after apostrophe(‘).

• The class’ students / The class’s students
• Lucas’ father / Lucas’s  father.
• The boss’ car / The boss’s car

If the word is a regular plural (i.e. a noun made plural with an s), we must not use ‘s’ after apostrophe , to show possession.

• The girls’ clothes (NOT the girls’s clothes)
• My friends’ favorite  hotel (NOT my friends’s favorite hotel)
• The students’ homes (NOT the students’s home).

If the word is made plural without an s (an irregular plural), then you can use an s after the apostrophe.

• The men’s shirt.
• The teeth’s  color.
• The people’s choices.

*an important exception to this rule is the word “it”. Since the contraction form of “It is” is “it’s”, we show possession for “it” by writing “its”.

• The dog ate its food quickly.

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