- Apostrophes indicate possession—something belonging to something or someone.
To indicate something belonging to one person, the apostrophe goes before the ‘s’.
To indicate something belonging to more than one person, put the apostrophe after the ‘s’.
- Apostrophes are never used to make a word plural, even when a word is in number form, as in a date.
- Apostrophes are also used to indicate a contraction.
Contractions are two words made shorter by placing an apostrophe where letters have been omitted. For example, “let’s” uses an apostrophe to indicate that the word is missing the “u” from “us”.