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Questions relating to the use of the apostrophe (’).
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Why are some possessives formed with “of ” but not apostrophe-“s”?
In The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the late Burchfield offered a guide to the use of possessive s and of with inanimate nouns. It is the most comprehensive and well founded stylistic advice I c …
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Why did they spell it "URL’s"?
The regular way to pluralize any noun is by adding just an s; the apostrophe should only be added to plural s if the word would otherwise become unreadable or exceedingly ambiguous. … The word URLs would seem to be quite clear: *URL's is probably a simple error made by those confusing it with the possessive 's, which always has an apostrophe (a few pronouns being the exception, like …
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Using apostrophes
Your use of the apostrophe in "the country's best pizza" is correct. But it is all wrong as regards punctuation and capitals. …
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Origins of possessive pronouns
Note that the apostrophe is of later date than the possessive s: the possessive of summer was simply summers in the time of Shakespeare.2 …