Perhaps no little piece of punctuation is as horribly missused as the poor apostrophe. It is used all over the place and often it doesn't belong.
So here, students, are the only places you should be using apostrophes:
- Contractions. Any time you are omitting letters from a word. Rock 'n' roll, twelve o'clock, don't, won't ne'er-do-well, and so on.
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