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Apostrophe

The apostrophe (’, ') is a punctuation mark and sometimes a diacritical mark in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other writing systems. In English, the apostrophe is used for two basic purposes:

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Apostrophe

Nodes449
Edges448
Triples539
Avg. degree2
Density0.004454
Components1

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Apostrophe

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related to As a mark of elision · 110
Apostrophe → Afrikaans, Alembert, Although, American, Ancient Greek, Andrea, Andrea's Blumenladen, Andreas, Anna's, Annaas, As, As Norwegian, Belgium, Bill, Book, Boom, Braine-le-Comte, Bush, Bushs, But
related to Miscellaneous uses in other languages · 75
Apostrophe → Another, Arabic, As, ASCII, But, Compare, Cyrillic, Early, English, Example, Examples, Facebook'as, For, French, Furthermore, Galician, George, Gershayim, Giles, Hebrew
related to Characters similar to apostrophe · 42
Apostrophe → A78BꞋLATIN CAPITAL LETTER SALTILLO, A78CꞌLATIN SMALL LETTER SALTILLOU, ACUTE ACCENTU, Also, APOSTROPHEU, Arabic, ARMENIAN APOSTROPHEU, COMBINING ACUTE ACCENTU, COMBINING ACUTE TONE MARKU, COMBINING COMMA ABOVE Also, COMBINING COMMA ABOVE RIGHTU, COMBINING GREEK KORONIS Identical, COMBINING REVERSED COMMA ABOVE, FF07, FULLWIDTH APOSTROPHE Fullwidth, GRAVE ACCENTU, Greek, GREEK KORONISU, GREEK PSILIU, GREEK TONOSU
related to Apostrophe showing omission · 34
Apostrophe → An, Apostrophes, Bo's'n's Mate, British, Charles Hamilton, Eye, Fo'c's'le, For, Frank Richards, Friday, Friday's, Geographic Names, I'll, In, Internet, It, K'minster, Kidderminster, KO, KO'd
related to To separate morphemes · 33
Apostrophe → Al Gore's, Ala, Bordeaux, Bordeaux'hon, CD, CD-en, Danish, Due, For, For Finnish, Gore'a, In, In Danish, In Estonian, In Finnish, In Polish, In Welsh, IP, IP'en, Istanbul
related to As a glottal stop · 28
Apostrophe → Austronesian, Burkina Faso, Chamorro, D'ni, East Timor, Estonian, Finnish, Finno-Ugric, In, In Guarani, In Hawaiian, In Võro, It, Klingon, Like, Mando'a, Mayan, Mooré, Mossi, Na'vi
related to As a mark of palatalization or non-palatalization · 24
Apostrophe → Be, Belarusian, BGN/PCGN, But, Cyrillic, English, In, In Belarusian, In Russian, In Võro, It, Latin, Petrograd, Rus, Russian, Slavic, Some, Some Karelian, Soviet, The
related to Criticism · 23
Apostrophe → Adrian Room, American Speech, Anu Garg, Axing, Chronicle, Closing, English Journal, Geoffrey Pullum, George Bernard Shaw, Higher Education, In, John, John Richards, Over, Peter Brodie, Richards, Some, Steven Byington, The, The Apostrophe Protection Society
related to Programming · 21
Apostrophe → ASCII, Bar, C23, ECMAScript, He, In, In Rust, In Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Microsoft BASIC, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, QuickBASIC, Scala, Some, Strings
related to Punctuation apostrophe in 8-bit encodings · 20
Apostrophe → ANSI, Apple Macintosh, ASCII, Both, CP1252, Due, For, HTML5, In Unicode, ISO, ISO-Latin, Mac Roman, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, Some, Support, The, The Microsoft Windows, There

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used possessive use example apostrophes word also form english mark plural punctuation names words letter elision standard vowel singular often

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Apostropheis aletter in its own right0.90text
one hour's respiteinstance ofand similarAn apostrophe is used in time and money references in constructions0.80text
two weeks' holidayinstance ofand similarAn apostrophe is used in time and money references in constructions0.80text
a dollar's worthinstance ofand similarAn apostrophe is used in time and money references in constructions0.80text
five pounds' worthinstance ofand similarAn apostrophe is used in time and money references in constructions0.80text
one mile's drive from hereinstance ofand similarAn apostrophe is used in time and money references in constructions0.80text
the omission of the extrainstance ofwhich included providing for several exceptions to accommodate spoken usage0.80text
Harrodsinstance ofhas campaigned for large retailers0.80text
Currysinstance ofhas campaigned for large retailers0.80text
and Selfridges to reinstate their missing punctuationinstance ofhas campaigned for large retailers0.80text
St Annesinstance ofand a Japanese dance group called Super Monkey's.OmissionIn the UK there is a tendency to drop apostrophes in many commonly used names0.80text
St Johns Laneinstance ofand a Japanese dance group called Super Monkey's.OmissionIn the UK there is a tendency to drop apostrophes in many commonly used names0.80text

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