| 词汇 | apostrophe |
| 释义 | apostrophe noun[ C ] uk /əˈpɒs.trə.fi/ us /əˈpɑː.strə.fi/ B2 the symbol ’ used in writing to show when a letter or a number has been left out, as in I'm(= I am) or '85 (= 1985), or that is used before or after s to show possession, as in Helen's house or babies' hands: （表示省略或加在字母s前后表示所有格的）撇号，省字符，省略符号（’） "It's" with an apostrophe means "it is" or "it has".带有省字符号（‘）的“it's”表示“it is”或“it has”。 sometimes used before s to show the plural of a number or a letter: （用于字母s前表示数字或字母的复数形式） There are two p's in "supper".Supper这个单词里有两个字母p。 We spent Christmas Day with Ben's parents. This book is the fruit of 15 years' research.这本书是15年研究的成果。 Simon has a clear-sighted vision of the company's future.西蒙对公司的未来有精辟的见解。 Our neighbour's baby cries morning, noon and night.我们邻居家的婴儿从早到晚都在哭。 I'm sure my views on marriage are coloured by my parents' divorce.我对婚姻的观点肯定受到了我父母离婚一事的影响。 Punctuation abbreviated accent acute at sign block capitals caron comma curly bracket dash diacritical hyphen parenthesis punctuation mark round bracket scare quotes small cap small capitals solidus stroke tilde GrammarApostrophe (’) We sometimes connect two words to make one shorter word. We use an apostrophe to show that we have left out one or more letters: … Apostrophe to show two words have been connected (contraction) We sometimes connect two words to make one shorter word. We use an apostrophe to show that we have left out one or more letters: … Apostrophe + s to show possession When we show who owns something or has a close relationship with something, we use an apostrophe + s after the name or the noun. When the noun is plural, we put the apostrophe after the s: … Apostrophe with time We can use an apostrophe + s to show duration. When the time noun is plural, the apostrophe comes after the s: … Apostrophe: typical error We use an apostrophe to contract it is to it’s. We don’t use an apostrophe with possessive its: … Possessive ’s We use apostrophe s (’s), also called possessive ’s, as a determiner to show that something belongs to someone or something: … Possessives with of We can talk about possession using the pattern: noun phrase + of + possessive pronoun: … ’s or of or either? There are some general rules about when to use ’s and when to use of but there are many cases where both are possible: … Possession: typical errors We don’t use ’s with plural nouns: … apostrophe | American Dictionaryapostrophe noun[ C ] us/əˈpɑs·trə·fi/ grammar a mark (’) used in writing to show that a letter or a number has been omitted, or before or after s to show possession Examples of apostropheapostrophe 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). See all examples of apostrophe These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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