1. An apostophe is a punctuation mark used to indicate a singular or plural noun in the possessive case - Laura's room, many mothers' rules. But in the plural nouns ending in a letter other than -s, the correct usage is: the women's cars, the children's games.
2. An apostrophe is an omission of one or more letters from a word or contraction - don't for do not; all's okay for all is okay. The only time an apostrophe is used for it's is i a contradiction of it is or it has - It's taken a long time. Otherwise its is a possessive pronoun and takes no apostrophe - Each society makes its own laws.
Read the e-mail. Copy the text and paste it in a document. Mark the twelve words where the use of apostrophes are incorrect and correct them.
Hi Jo,
Big new's! Aunt Sarahs house is for sale and dads thinking of buying it. The family wants to sell almost everything thats in it . even all their DVD's, CDs, and the kids stuff. I dont know if the sale will really happen, but its exciting and the house's garden is so much bigger than our's. Ill keep you posted, but keep your fingers crossed. Hope youre well and that everything's going okay.
Emma
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