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APOSTROPHES, QUOTATION, AND COMMA

Fakhruddin Arrusydi
Laxsena

APOSTROPHES

Apostrophe is a punctuation mark that is used to form a possessive form, contraction, and plural.
Apostrophe is quotation marks (‘) used in writing with English Grammar rules.

There are 4 types of Apostrophes :

1. Contraction (Abbreviation)
Example Contractions :
- We'll = we will
- Won’t = will not
- Aren’t = are not
- They’ve = they have
- We’re = we are
- Who’s = who is

2. Possessive Form (Ownership)


Example Possessive Form :
- Regular Noun : The actresses' song
The girls' room

- Irregular Noun : Irregular nouns are nouns which are plural in


number and have a different form of word than the
original word. An example is, person - people.

- Singular Noun : Lisa's car


My buddy's house

3. Plural
Here, The Apostrophe functions to describe something singular. For this
function, it is usually only used for letters and numbers.
Examples of Sentences with Apostrophe in Plural Form :
" I got B's for my chemical test "
Here, the value B gets an additional ‘s because the value of B that wants to be
clarified here is that I get (some / many) the value of B for my chemistry test.

4. Fixed Expression
A fixed expression is a form of expression that expresses an expression that is
different from the words fixed expression itself.
Example sentence with fixed expression :
- a day's work
- a month's pay
- today’s newspaper

QUOTATION

A quotation is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when
the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and
it is indicated by (punctuated with) quotation marks.
A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any other form of expression,
especially parts of artistic works: elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a
musical composition.
COMMA

A. Definition Comma

A comma is a punctuation that resembles a single quotation mark that will reach
its position in the base line of the text.

B. Function and Example of Using Comma

The general rule of use of comma is that there are no blank spaces before comma;
but there is one space after this punctuation.

Example :
1. Cellular phones, computers, or the internet are no longer foreign items.
2. I want to buy a camera, but my money is not enough.

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