How to Use "apostrophe" with Example Sentences

1. Before the seventeenth century the apostrophe was rare .

2. On the old woman 's knee was a large drop of blood shaped like an apostrophe .

3. While this is not to say that the apostrophe should be renounced , there is plenty of evidence that it is on the way out .

4. Maybe it is the errant apostrophe , the splitting of the poor old infinitive , or the use of " like " as a comma .

5. In britain , the apostrophe has , for some time , been vanishing from street signs , much to the chagrin of the apostrophe protection society ( founded 2001 ) .