Apostrophes and Ellipses

geese, buck [the animal not the money], antelope

The contraction of we had is we'd.
The apostrophe is the little superscript punctuation mark between the e and the d.

Additional answer
It's not correct to ask 'what is the apostrophe of we had'. It should be 'what is the contraction of we had'. The apostrophe is a punctuation mark that (amongst other things) denotes that a letter has been removed.

If it is used as a plural, then no. If you were referring an object as a thing, and were talking about something that belonged to it, like "The thing's head" then the apostrophe is used. For plurals, you don't use apostrophes, but for possessive situations, you do. So you could say "There are lots of those things there" and you could say "Look at that thing's side."

Sure. You can use apostrophe s to signify possession even in words/names that end in z.

Examples:

Mr. Fuzz's fuzzy tail

Mercedes Benz's headlights

at the very end. playmates'

contraction.

Add 's.

The apostrophe in a contraction holds the place of a letter or group of letters.

Example:

Don't = Do not (the apostrophe holds the place of the 'o')

They've = They have (the apostrophe holds the place of the 'ha')

The contraction for are not is aren't. (pronounced ARR-ent)

If we are talking about more than one brand, then that's a plural and plurals do not take an apostrophe.

e.g. "Their product was as good as - if not better than - most of the top high street brands, yet cost half the price"

Ellipses are used to show an intentional omission of words or phrases. See links.

Anything that is a contraction of "[pronoun] are". e.g. We are = we're They are = they're

Yes, the contracted form of "little" (conversational or as a name) is "Li'l", apostrophe between the I and the second L. E.g. " Li'l Abner ", long running 20th Century comic strip (and movies, 1940 and 1959) NOTE : the black female rap artist Kimberly Denise Jones (born 7/11/1975) uses a non-standard form for her professional name, apostrophe after the entire LIL : "Lil' Kim " (also previously used the identifying pseudonym "K.I.M.")

Ain't is a contraction of am not, so the apostrophe stands for those missing letters, as with other contractions. What's weird about it, and may partially contribute to its non-acceptance in "correct" English, is that the missing letters do not occur next to each other, and the "i" that seems to come from nowhere.

"My oldest brother's pet mice are as big as yours."

Series is a noun that has the same form in the singular and the plural. There is no need for an apostrophe, unless it is in the possessive case: series's for the singular possessive and series' for the plural possessive.

The apostrophe in a contraction holds the place of one or more letters omitted from the conjoining of two words.

In British English one writes the 1980s, but in American English 1980's seems to be pretty standard. The British version seems sounder as there is no contraction or omission. =============== While the use of the apostrophe in the example used to be commonplace (and, I submit, erroneous), it seems to be fast going the way of the Dodo Bird. Only a nitpicker worse than myself, however, would object to either.

There are three types of apostrophe. The possessive apostrophe, to show that a letter is missing and to highlight a word or phrase, eg 'hasn't', doesn't', 'can't'. The possessive apostrophe would be used in a sentence such as 'The student's work was of a high standard' meaning the work of the student. However if you are using the word students in the plural form, it would be written 'students' work'.

Mary's would refer to the possessions of one person called Mary, whereas Marys' would refer to the collective possessions of multiple people by the name of Mary.

Capitalise the cardinal directions when they are referring to a specific region of a country (eg: Northwest America). Do NOT capitalise if they are used as directions (eg: Looking north...).