apostrophe 的定义
- the sign, as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o'er for over, or pronounced, as in gov't for government; to indicate the possessive case, as in man's; or to indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols, as in several M.D.'s, 3's.
apostrophe 近义词
等同于 stream of consciousness
等同于 irrelevancy
等同于 parenthesis
等同于 digression
等同于 figure of speech
更多apostrophe例句
- Before you put in the order, send the wife a note explaining that you just realized that the apostrophe is in the wrong place and confirm that you, fortunately, caught it before it went to the printers.
- Edging in, it took nearly a minute before I could see the fungus at the center of all the fuss, a tiny ocher apostrophe hovering above the wet underbrush.
- Then, someone insisted that was wrong, so she taped over the “e” and added an apostrophe.
- That means you can spell a word like S’MORES, which involves an apostrophe, for example.
- Ruderman, citing family reasons, eventually returned, and Osberg, Larry Platt and his apostrophe were unceremoniously removed.
- The no-apostrophe rule has been reaffirmed five times, yet punctuationists fight on.
- Jennifer Runyon, one of the name committee's three staffers, says: "We don't debate the apostrophe."
- Before she reached the house, Gouvernail had lighted a fresh cigar and ended his apostrophe to the night.
- Apostrophe usage is not consistent in the text as in using both dont and dont.
- In truth, there was good ground for his sorrowful apostrophe, for the scene was very painful to a high-minded witness.
- It intentionally begins with an apostrophe, not an unmatched single quotation mark, and was left as originally printed.
- S—A—R—, and so on, the thing ran, but the whole legend was complete before that apostrophe started into its place.