Having seen once again an unfortunate and misleading use of apostrophes in my local grocery circular, I think this is something Word-wise could stand to address in detail. I've touched on apostrophe use before, but it's a lesson that bears repeating. Better yet, let's take this slowly and carefully and do it as several lessons over the next few weeks. First up:

Possessives
An apostrophe is commonly used to turn a noun into a possessive adjective. In most cases, that means simply attaching 's to a noun.

dog --> dog's
car --> car's
people --> people's

The advantage of possessive adjectives is, they're far more... Click here to read the rest of this post at the Word-wise Blog.

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