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| Use underlining for titles and subtitles of books, plays, periodicals, works of art, films, television series, and long musical compositions and recordings. |
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Little Woman
The Flying Tortilla Man
Sky and Telescope
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| Use underlining for names of ships, trains, aircrafts, and spacecrafts. |
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Titanic
Santa Fe Chief
Enola Gay
Eagle |
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| Underline an article (a, an, the) at the beginning of a title or subtitle only if it is the first word of the official title or subtitle. |
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The Thinker
The Wizard of Oz
The Four Seasons |
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An apostrophe is used to form the possesive case of nouns and some pronouns, to indicate in a contraction where letters or numerals have been omitted, and to form some plurals.
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| To form possesive case of singular noun, add an apostrophe and an "s" |
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Sandra's hair
Julio's sister
everyone's choice
a dollar's worth |
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| Do NOT use an apostophe with possesive personal pronouns . |
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| To form the possesive case of a plural noun ending in "s", add only the apostophe . |
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actors' scripts
doctors' opinions |
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| To form the possesive case of a plural noun that does not end in an "s", add an apostrophe and an "s" . |
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geese's honks
sheep's pasture |
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| To form a contraction, use an apostrophe to show where letters or numerals have been omitted . |
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I am → I'm
you will → you'll |
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