| 词汇 | example_english_apostrophe |
| 释义 | Examples of apostropheThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What stuck out rather incongruously in the two headings were the repeated apostrophes, which were large enough to be cut out and mounted by collectors of such ephemera. There were increases also in the use of apostrophes to separate the inflection from the stem in ad hoc verbs such as henna'd and prorata'd (up 6% and 8% respectively). There were consistent decreases also in the use of apostrophes in generic uses of the possessive, as in boys grammar school and journalists association, down to 40-50% of respondents. The misplacing of apostrophes is notorious, even in advertisements put out by major public companies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the githyanki language, apostrophes (which are not pronounced) separate different morphemes which have been combined into a single word. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The first construction is the genitive construction realized with an apostrophe plus the letter s at the end of the noun. The fakamoga is nowadays taught at schools, and can be written with straight, curly or inverted curly apostrophes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The keyboard contained all 26 letters, plus a star, which is used to represent markings other than letters such as apostrophes or hyphens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The apostrophe denotes palatalization of a preceding consonant. By the middle of the 19th century acceptance of plural possessive with the apostrophe following the s was more or less complete. Even the grammarians of the time by and large ignored the apostrophe as part of possessive constructions. The apostrophe, however, is threatened across almost its entire range of use. The apostrophe is also losing ground in its oldest and most basic function, indicating omission. Do you - or any of your readers - have any views on the use of the apostrophe as exemplified in this letter? The most likely objection to abandoning the apostrophe is probably the resultant confusion between homographs (words of identical spelling). The use of the apostrophe 's' also goes beyond names of bars and signs. The items below are presented as optional ways of writing the same word or expression, some with the apostrophe/stop, others without. Commas, apostrophes and other punctuation marks are also based on the diagonal square dot. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Her apostrophe is hence an act of speaking to all such absent voices, at the same time it is a speaking for them. Apostrophes are used for the rarely written clitic. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Monologues share much in common with several other literary devices including soliloquies, apostrophes, and aside. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Can there be any wonder that today's young people grow up unsure of the apostrophe and its use? They are very likely to conclude that the apostrophe means nothing, that it plays some non-significant, decorative role. The cannot say the same for the apostrophe. The earlier spelling "owne" produces 73 instances of "its owne" and 14 with the errant apostrophe. The bond of sound that held these together was broken when its entered the picture, just in time to draw the apostrophe along with it. One forms die possessive of a noun not ending in s, singular or plural, by adding an apostrophe pluss. One type of message compression markers, the apostrophe, directly links casual speech processes, which delete phonological units and obscure phonological boundaries, with the orthographic system. A third use for the apostrophe also evolved, which was to indicate the plural of a word of foreign origin, such as folio's. The apostrophe still has a role to play, and rules. In one of the segments, they all have female names revealed with apostrophes and s at the end because they're hens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The one exception to the nopunctuation rule has been the apostrophe. The apostrophe of omission was then extended to the genitive case of nouns, on the assumption that the inflection had once been "-es" or "is". If we no longer write the apostrophe, we can never insert it incorrectly. Hyphens are used to distinguish between and in this variant system, instead of the apostrophes in the original version. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the extracts from the interviews, the word it's consistently lacks its apostrophe. The use of apostrophes varies in early editions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There are numerous variations, with or without hyphens and apostrophes, using one word or two, and singular or plural. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The use of apostrophes, hyphens, and capitalization is frequently not observed in place names and personal names. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Cultivar names are always capitalised, often placed between apostrophes, and not italicised. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When capitals, hyphens, or apostrophes were used, they sometimes caused legibility problems, and a separate capital sign was never agreed upon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The angle shape appeared later to increase the distinction and avoid confusions with apostrophes, commas and parentheses in handwritten manuscripts submitted to publishers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Later sans-serif typefaces had stylised apostrophes with a more geometric or simplified form, but usually retaining the same directional bias as a closing quotation mark. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Australians have been more conservative, but even there the apostrophe has been challenged, especially in placenames. Agreement about the apostrophe seemed to erode almost as soon as it was reached. Initially, the possessive apostrophe was used more widely with proper names than with common nouns. During the last part of the 19th century, grammarians and printers seemed to have agreed on the conventions governing the use of the apostrophe. Agreement about the conventions detailing the use of the apostrophe seemed to erode almost as soon as it was reached. Another source of confusion is ellipsis, the basis for the omission of the apostrophe in so many names of commercial firms. Dashes, guillemets (often reversed), double apostrophes (also often reversed), and more are all found. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She was on the show to answer a viewer question about the use of possessive apostrophes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If the word is a proper name, the word and the suffix are separated using an apostrophe. Palatalisation, marked by an apostrophe, is indicated in contexts other than before front vowels. Uses breves, apostrophes and diereses, the latter two indicating orthographic syllable boundaries in cases that would otherwise be ambiguous. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. An extrasyllabic segment is represented in (11) with an apostrophe. The apostrophes that give mri words their distinctive appearance appear to represent a glottal stop when separating two vowels, for instance, in "keleen", a woman of the kel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Correct reading depends on the inclusion of superscript numbers and the use of apostrophes to distinguish between different consonants, but in practice both of these are commonly omitted. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Grammarians, especially those who believed rules should be governed by logic, objected that nothing had been deleted from the plural form so the apostrophe was not appropriate. Other instances of the apostrophe can be found in the plural of nouns that end with vowels and those that end with a sibilant sound (s, z, ch, sh). Like children today, they too had to make their way through a maze of conflicting, often contradictory examples to reach an understanding of the elusive apostrophe. The apostrophes represent the sounds that are removed, and are not spoken but help the reader to understand that it is a contraction and not a word of its own. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Indeed, among the historically minded, the idea that the apostrophe marks the place of a deleted syllable also holds, though tenuously, even for the possessive form of a few nouns. The expanding and sometimes ad hoc roles of the apostrophe and the stop since the seventeenth century have created anomalies, which the twenty-first century needs to resolve. Then we describe our error typology and detail the techniques used to retrieve words and to order proposals appropriately: alphacode, phoneticization, adhoc, capitalization, apostrophe, and word separation error methods. As already pointed out in 3.1.5, the use of the apostrophe to mark the genitive did not become general until the eighteenth century, hence either interpretation would be possible. The speaker of the text turns to these operatic voices in an apostrophe that is at once a turning away and an unmistakeable sign of absence. Double letters, apostrophes, which could only be t or s, and the fact that no letter can substitute for itself in the cipher also offer clues to the solution. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Can she assure me that the national curriculum will include the difference between "its"and"it's", "their", "there"and"they're", and the plural and the apostrophe? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The apostrophe serves a purpose, and it is essential that we understand it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The debate about apostrophe "s" occurs frequently in the media. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The amendment is not designed to save the face of the nation, which seems to have lost the art of the use of the apostrophe. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suggest that it might be possible to treat a comma and an apostrophe, for this purpose, as being of like effect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the case of both the sickle-leaved hare's-ear and the small hare's-ear the apostrophe should appear before and not after the "s". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Letters "a" and "c", which only use dots in the top row, were lowered two places for the apostrophe and hyphen:. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Maps do not show the station name with apostrophe while the station signs do. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Fractional seconds are given in decimal after a separator (dot, comma or apostrophe). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The apostrophe indicates that the consonant preceding a soft vowel is not palatalized, when it otherwise would be. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Each chapter concludes with apostrophe to the poet himself containing his pen name. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Because of legibility problems (see lower contractions in the next section), they may not come in contact with an apostrophe or hyphen either. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Instead, one typed a period, backspaced, and typed an apostrophe. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Most proposals entailed regularising the use of established eighteenth and nineteenth century conventions, in particular the avoidance of the apologetic apostrophe. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The glottal stop is written as either an apostrophe or as a superscript question mark. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Consider the use of apostrophes and of word division. Besides, contractions resort to apostrophes to indicate that one of the source constituents has been shortened. The narrator makes his presence most felt by a series of moralistic or sacrilegious apostrophes: comments on events within the text. The print volume is exceptionally poorly produced, with typos, omissions, repetitions, verbless sentences and redundant apostrophes. Many of these signs are posted on portable marquees and the apostrophes frequently get lost. Squabbles over apostrophes or texts to be studied; short-term concerns over handwriting or spelling; misconceived notions about writing or reading are, deeply, missing the point. Among the nonpossessive uses of apostrophes, there are also some notable trends. Variable use of enjambment, end stopping and apostrophes that coincide with both clauses and sentence breaks, adds to the poem's unique and inconsistent rhythmic effect. Regardless of how legitimate the reasons may be for omitting the apostrophes in unconventional places, the effect is the same. Of those nine, five as expected include apostrophes; four have no punctuation. The more often we see forms without apostrophes or with apostrophes in unconventional places, the more we become accustomed to them. Why are the apostrophes used, do you think? Reading the captions, it occurred to me that the wording would be just as comprehensible, and a good deal tidier and 'tighter', if the five apostrophes had been omitted. In keeping with common practice for experiments of this type, we split off punctuation and suffixes beginning with apostrophes from the words they followed, making them separate tokens. Inevitably, the repeated apostrophes and suspended syntax of the previous stanzas now vanish from his speech; and their disappearance seems to mark the disappearance of innocent stability from the poem. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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