Apostrophes and Ellipses

Yes, that is correct because it's is short for it is.

In possessive nouns and contractions.

It's used to subsitute a missing letter in a contraction or show ownership. Ex. don't..... used to show that the letter o is missing.

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The apostrophe is also used to represent a possessive case in English, for example, the Jim's toys, Mary's books and so on. If the possessor is plural and ends in -s the apostrophe is placed after the -s, as in the boys' toys, the girls' clothes, etc. If a name ends in -s, use 's as in Charles's story. Neveruse a possessive apostrophe with the pronouns its, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs.

It should be "school's" because the reputation belongs to it.

Some nouns that show ownership using an apostrophe are "couch's, house's, equation's", etc.

"Won't" is "will not."

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Ellipsis.

Ellipses.

redundency

I've given this a lot of thought...

There are exceptions to just about everything in the English language, but the general rule for apostrophes is purely for possession. There are very very few cases where apostrophes are used to indicate plural.

If there were many mothers it would be: moms

Ex: All of our moms went to the kitchen to make sandwiches for our dads.

If something belonged to the mother it would be: mom's

Ex: My mom's wrist hurt after making so many sandwiches for my dad.

I wonder if you mean 'antistrophe'.

In ancient Greek Drama the chorus delivering an ode would move across the stage in one direction (the strophe) and then turn and move in the opposite direction (the antistrophe).

But since in rhetoric an apostrophe means a diversion or digression, I suppose that the turning point when the chorus switches from strophe to antistrophe could be considered an apostrophe too.

The most widely accepted use of spaces today entails that one space be left between the end of sentence and the beginning of another. A question mark denotes the end of an interrogatory sentence, thus it is most common to leave one space after a question mark before starting the next sentence. It is also acceptable, though less common, to leave two spaces between sentences.

• "Where, O death, thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?" 1 Corinthians 15:55, (Saint) Paul of Tarsus
• "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! / Thou art the ruins of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
• "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." Shakespeare,Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1
• "To what green altar, O mysterious priest, / Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?" John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
• "O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!" Sir Walter Raleigh, A Historie of the World
• "Roll on, thou dark and deep blue Ocean -- roll!" Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
• "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so", John Donne, "Holy Sonnet X"
• "And you, Eumaeus..." the Odyssey
• "O My friends, there is no friend." Montaigne, originally attributed to Aristotle[3]
• "Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!", from Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
• "O black night, nurse of the golden eyes!" Electra in Euripides' Electra(c. 410 BCE, line 54), in the translation by David Kovacs (1998).
• "Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief." [(Queen Isabela in Edward II by Christopher Malowe)]
• "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." Romeo and Juliet (V, iii, 169-170).

See the answer to the related question.

To leave your writing on a cliffhanger and make the reader want to read on. Often used when something shocking has happened. eg: And then the alien disappeared...

John Dugger and Mary Dugger have a family. They are called the Duggers. The s here is a plural. Apostrophes are never added to make a word a plural.

John Jones and Mary Jones have a family. They are called the Joneses. The es is also a plural marker. No apostophe.

Mr. and Mrs. Dugger have a house. It is the Duggers' house. The s is already there to make the plural and the additional apostrophe marks the possessive. Mr. Dugger plays golf. Mr. Dugger's golf clubs are in the closet. Here we add 's to the singular to make a possessive.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones live in the Joneses' house. Mrs. Jones's things are in the house and so are Mr. Jones's things. The Joneses' children's things are also in the house. Their names are James and Liz. James's things are in the house. So are Liz's

The rules:

Plural: add s or if the word already ends in s, add es

Possessive: add 's unless it ends in s because it is a plural, then add an apostrophe.

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