Sentence examples for apostrophe from inspiring English sources

WITH its lurid food photos (never an encouraging sign) and an elusive apostrophe, Katies kebab shop in Peckham, south London, might not instantly appeal to all readers of The Economist.

Maybe it is the errant apostrophe, the splitting of the poor old infinitive, or the use of "like" as a comma.

ITS a shame, is'nt it, the way modern popular usage mistreats the apostrophe, omitting it, misplacing it or, most often, adding it superfluously in plural's as, all three, Johnson has just done.

The apostrophe, though, is common but random.Its use for omitted letters is ancient.

Same story with the apostrophe: in the 18th-century authors were sprinkling apostrophes over everything.

Aside from consonants that don't exist in English and the "soft sign" (represented in this entry by an apostrophe), which softens the consonant before it, the vowels in Russian are big beefy things, requiring facial muscles that never get a workout in English.For my first few months in Moscow I felt as if I was chewing pebbles.

Not the exclamation mark, however, which smacks of laughing at one's own joke.Readers moved to passion by a misplaced apostrophe are not alone.

Later, spellings like lov'd or o'er are common.As in those 17th-century examples and much later the apostrophe is often absent from the genitive 's.

But why with an apostrophe?

But the apostrophe is seen, not heard.

When no other mark (such as a hyphen or space) is in order, the McCune-Reischauer system uses the apostrophe to distinguish such pairs as hangŏ (= hang-ŏ) 'resistance' and han'gŏ (= han-gŏ, usually pronounced as if hang-gŏ) 'a cloistered life.' The vowel nucleus consists of a simple vowel, which may be preceded by y or w.