Possessives

• greengrocer: Sticklers for correct punctuation were rejoicing today after a government body declared war on the greengrocer's apostrophe.

• grocer: And he ends with comments on the most popular problems - including what he calls ' the grocer's apostrophe ' .

Converse of object

• misplace: There, and I don't think I misplaced a single apostrophe.

• insert: The apostrophe If needed, insert the apostrophe into the following headlines and standfirsts, then check your answers within The Newspaper.

• miss: Reporter WILLIAM HARRIS decided to find out THE woman who got steamed up over missing apostrophes has a new bugbear: bad manners.

• put: If you put an apostrophe in, you change the meaning.

• remove: When you select it, it removes every apostrophe in the story.

• add: If you're going to add an aberrant apostrophe to a plural, add it to every plural.

Adjective modifier

• possessive: Iain Connell, Uk I do not agree with dropping the possessive apostrophe.

• single: There, and I don't think I misplaced a single apostrophe.

• missing: Sentence level work KS3 Skills Apostrophe wars Add the missing apostrophes!

• errant: Why Rover's return is making us blush Stephen Pritchard puts paid to the errant apostrophe.

• redundant: Franci ' s 447 x 480 41K The redundant apostrophe is the only reason for this picture's presence.

• unnecessary: So, top of the class for natural history, and bottom of the English class for that unnecessary apostrophe in the title!

Modifies a noun

• character: In all other posi- tions, it denotes the single quote or apostrophe character.

• webpage: About Apostrophes webpage Click here to go to the Apostrophes webpage.

Preposition: in

• title: So, top of the class for natural history, and bottom of the English class for that unnecessary apostrophe in the title!

• possessive: One of these was his rule about where to place the apostrophe in possessives, e.g. the boy's room.

• plural: This should be well known, but the inclusion of the apostrophe in simple plurals seems to have increased in recent years.

• word: The use of apostrophes in words which would have been present if a related English word had been used instead ( e.g.