That’s better. These apostrophes are little, but can have a big effect. I think it needs a few small changes. Speaker 2: (TO AUDIENCE) There’s a whole load of punctuation, not just full stops ...

It hurts to see that innocent little apostrophe ripped out of its lovely corral at the Punctuation Ranch and jammed into a word where it clearly doesn’t belong. Proper punctuation saves lives.

That punctuation means you have one guy named Jone who owns something. But their last name is Jones, with an ‘S.’ If there’s more than one of them, it’s the Joneses. No apostrophe.” ...

As the famously nitpicking former editor Lynne Truss once put it, “To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as ...

scan it for potentially misused or missing punctuation marks. A common mistake in text messages, which also appears frequently on the ACT and SAT, is a misused apostrophe. There are two general ...