An apostrophe is not an accessory. Here are some easy-to-follow rules for using an apostrophe—and when you definitely shouldn't. An apostrophe might be tiny, but used correctly, it adds clarity and ...

Iain Wood from Belgium asks: When I went to school, the apostrophe was used to integrate another word, such as 'it's mine' (it is mine). But when the apostrophe was placed AFTER the word, such as ...

In the debate over whether the apostrophe should be eliminated, there may appear to be connection with real life. However, there isn’t—it can only be classified as a kind of journalistic kabuki. Not ...

After VERIFYING how to spell canceled (with one l or two), a viewer asked us to VERIFY another grammar inquiry you might have been breaking for years. Beth Miller from Guilford County asked, "Why ...

A discussion about punctuation marks is like opening the Pandora`s Box. Out come the full stop (.), the comma (,), the semi colon (;), the colon (), the question mark ...

It’s always a good day to celebrate the apostrophe, but Aug. 15 may be the best day: ’Tis International Apostrophe Day, the annual commemoration of a crooked little line that punches above its weight.

In French, to show that someone possesses something, you use their word for “of,” which is “de”: La plume de ma tante. Spanish works the same way: La venganza de Moctezuma. Italian, too: Buca di Beppo ...

In the last paragraph of my column "How To Debug a PowerShell Script," I mentioned that punctuation can be problematic in PowerShell strings. I often catch myself omitting apostrophes, for example, ...

The sometimes vexing question of where and when to add an apostrophe appears to have been solved in one corner of Devon: the local authority is planning to do away with them altogether. Later this ...