i cant answer it i'm the one looking for the answer, does anyone know what year did we start talking and using apostrophe's to shorten our words like (you're or I'm or where's ) please someone answer this question. Thank you
Using force to keep African Americans from voting.
Most African Americans had not learned to read while they were slaves.
European missionaries introduced Christianity to the Native Americans.
Many of the Native Americans died of disease from being around the Europeans. Colonists also traded with Africa and African Americans became more efficient.
President Grant helped to pass The Enforcements Act to prevent Southerners from using fear to shut African Americans out of the political process.
1908
apostrophe, such as in "could've" for "could have" or "don't" for "do not".
The contractionI'dcan mean either "I would" or "I had."
When you select it, it removes every apostrophe in the story.
A contraction is made of two words with an apostrophe. Note the apostrophe replaces a letter.
If the plural noun has possession, indicate it by using an apostrophe after the S.
The contraction of 'will not' is won't.
You only use an apostrophe in it's when it is a contraction of it is. If you are using ITS to describe something belonging to IT, such as "It was wagging its tail," then the tail belongs to it and so its does not have an apostrophe.
A noun that shows ownership using an apostrophe is a possessive noun.
No, unless your name has an apostrophe in it or you are using it in the possessive.
If you are indicating possession (Achilles' heal) use an apostrophe at the end of the word. If you are simply stating his name, there is no apostrophe.
It is an apostrophe that is used in a word like couldn't. Instead of could not you use an apostrophe to make it in to couldn't and that is how is used. It can also be used with numbers, like for example 1954 using an apostrophe like this '54 makes it an apostrophe that shows contraction.