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English Skills with Readings, 5/e
John Langan, Atlantic Community College
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apostrophe  a punctuation mark generally used in order 1) to show the omission of one or more letters in a contraction, and 2) to show ownership or possession
contraction  the combination of two words through omission of one or more letters and use of an apostrophe. Ex.: hasn't (for has not)








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