A commentary on apostrophes and Tagalog poetry
16 Mar
By Romy Cayabyab
In earlier posts, we commented on poetry editing and punctuation, and grammar, spelling and poetry. In this post, I like to comment on the use of apostrophes.
When writing in the English language, we use apostrophes to:
- indicate possession (man’s car)
- indicate plural of lowercase letter and help avoid ambiguity (cross the t’s)
- indicate omitted letters in contracted words (don’t)
With the number of punctuation rules that we need to observe including apostrophes, even professional writers are sometimes confused and commit the same mistakes like many of us. (more…)
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