Many languages shorten words in everyday speech. In English, we shorten a lot of words. One way we do this is with contractions: two words joined with a special mark called an “apostrophe.” The ...

Two activities and a quiz involving identifying correctly and incorrectly punctuated contractions. Pupils must look carefully at the sentences to check if the apostrophes for omission have been put in ...

Engage your Year 2 learners with this fun and interactive set of contraction puzzles, designed to help pupils understand how apostrophes are used for contracted forms (not possession). This hands-on ...

Apostrophes can be used in a couple of ways. With contractions, use apostrophes to indicate that letters are missing. When two words are written in shortened form, use an apostrophe to show that some ...

Discover common English contractions, learn how shortened words work, and explore simple grammar tips for speaking and ...

Possession, contractions, plurals – test your ability to use an apostrophe in our fun and completely pedantic quiz This week there were reports that residents of North Yorkshire were irked that their ...

After the comma, the second most difficult punctuation mark to master is the apostrophe. Apostrophes are troublesome because there is no universal agreement about the rule that states that single ...

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A few days ago, I got a question from a member of this class. She wants to know which is correctly punctuated between the following: I saw John’s and David’s house. I saw John and David’s house. As ...