Hi everybody, my name is Alicia. In this lesson, we're going to look at how to use apostrophies.

Let's get started. Okay, in this lesson, I want to talk about two basic uses of the apostrophe.

The things I'm going to talk about in this lesson will cover most basic uses of the apostrophe.

There are two categories of use.

We're going to look at showing possession, and we're going to look at contractions,

to show the missing letters and words.

Let's start by showing possession with apostrophies.

So to show possession with an apostrophe, you can use apostrophe s after a noun.

So this expresses that something belongs to the noun.

So let's look at some very basic examples of this.

First, my teacher's pen.

In this example, we have my teacher as the noun that we have to show possession for.

We have the apostrophe here, and then it's followed by S.

Next is pen.

This shows that the pen is owned by my teacher.

We can use apostrophe S to demonstrate this. Let's look at the next

example. His sister's car. His sister's car. In this sentence, sister is the person owning

something, or rather, his sister. So again, apostrophe s shows the ownership in this situation. The car is owned by his sister.

Let's look at the last basic example. It's my father's wallet. My father's wallet. Again, we have

apostrophe s after the owner of the object. So here, my father is the owner of the wallet.

So we can use apostrophe S to show ownership in this way. But there are some very important rules to keep in mind to make sure that you always express this ownership clearly and correctly.

So let's take a look at two key rules for you to follow.

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