Apostrophe
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The apostrophe ( ’ or ' ) is a punctuation mark and, sometimes, a diacritic mark, in languages written in the Latin alphabet. In English it has two main functions: it marks omissions, and it assists in marking the possessives of all nouns and many pronouns.
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