{"id":854,"date":"2012-11-08T18:33:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T18:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2012-11-08T18:33:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T18:33:56","slug":"apostrophes-a-minefield-of-everyday-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/apostrophes-a-minefield-of-everyday-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostrophes:  a minefield of everyday English"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>One issue\u00a0in English tutoring is apostrophes.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll sort out when to use them &#8211; and when not to.<\/h1>\n<p>In everyday English, you commonly see apostrophes misused.\u00a0\u00a0There are only two cases\u00a0in which\u00a0you do use them:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0 In contractions, such as can&#8217;t and don&#8217;t.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0apostrophe means that letters\u00a0have been left out to shorten the word.\u00a0 (For example, can&#8217;t means <em>cannot<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0 To show possession, such as John&#8217;s car or Heidi&#8217;s boots.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0<em>don&#8217;t<\/em><em> <\/em>use apostrophes any other time.<\/p>\n<p>Note that, when the possessor is plural, you put the apostrophe <em>after the s:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That is\u00a0my <strong>parents&#8217;<\/strong> car.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this saves you some marks :)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a title=\"Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC\" href=\"..\/\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane<\/a>, Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One issue\u00a0in English tutoring is apostrophes.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll sort out when to use them &#8211; and when not to. In everyday English, you commonly see apostrophes misused.\u00a0\u00a0There are only two cases\u00a0in which\u00a0you do use them: 1)\u00a0 In contractions, such as can&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/apostrophes-a-minefield-of-everyday-english\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apostrophes:  a minefield of everyday English<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}