apostrophes
Sayuh-POS-truh-feezUS/əˈpɑs.tɹə.fiz/UK/əˈpɒs.tɹə.fiz/
- 1Plural of apostrophe. Use this when you mean more than one of the marks.
Don't forget the apostrophes when you write words like "don't" and "it's."
The teacher circled all the missing apostrophes in red ink.
Note
apostrophes is a form of apostrophe
apostrophe, noun: A small mark like a raised comma, used in writing to show missing letters or to show who owns something. Full entry
- Forms
- apostropheapostrophes plural
- Spelling
- apostrophe → apostrophes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
Use it in a sentence
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