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Originally Posted by karrieb How do I start to write about the apostrophe? and how might it present problems to learners? |
I would start with the main uses of apostrophes:
1. To show possession
2. To mark missing letters in a word, as in contractions.
3. To show plurals of lower case letters, numbers, and some acronyms/initialisms.
As Ron said, the main problems occur with mixing up contractions and possessives and using them in possessive pronouns such as
its and
theirs.