I have a problem with apostrophes because I'm just not sure where they should go. I have always been marked wrong for some and I just have not been sure the reason. It seems like sometimes they should have one and sometimes they should not.
The rule is
1) to form possessives of
nouns 2) to show the omission of letters
3) to indicate certain
plurals of lowercase letters.
Apostrophes are NOT used for possessive pronouns or for noun plurals, including acronyms.
This information was found at the owl at Purdue. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html
Another site I checked was the grammar book.com websithttp://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.aspe
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