The apostrophe can be used to show who things belong to.
If an item belongs to something, the apostrophe shows us who, by sitting at the end of the noun.
If that noun doesn’t end in s, the apostrophe brings one with it.
This shows the crown belongs to the magpie.
Usually if the noun already ends in s, then the apostrophe just brings itself. This shows that Mittens thinks the magpie belongs to her.
Plural nouns work in a similar way. Like when the whole pack of dogs are trying to ‘own’ Mittens.
And when two people own something… one apostrophe after the second name is enough to show they both own it.
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A possessive apostrophe shows that something belongs to or is connected to something else.
When you want to show that something belongs to that person or thing, you add a possessive apostrophe and an ‘s’.
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