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Hi,

Can someone explain to me when to use apostrophes. For example dogs or dog's or phones or phone's etc or even phones'.

I have a test coming up and I really need some help with this, if someone could kindly expain it to me.

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You may find some helpful information here:

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We don't use apostrophes to make plurals of words.

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