apostrophe / əˈpɒs trə fi /

⚽高中词汇撇号省略号撇去撇开不谈

apostrophe 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. 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

apostrophe

等同于 stream of consciousness

apostrophe

等同于 irrelevancy

apostrophe

等同于 parenthesis

apostrophe

等同于 digression

apostrophe

等同于 figure of speech

更多apostrophe例句

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Then, someone insisted that was wrong, so she taped over the “e” and added an apostrophe.
  4. That means you can spell a word like S’MORES, which involves an apostrophe, for example.
  5. Ruderman, citing family reasons, eventually returned, and Osberg, Larry Platt and his apostrophe were unceremoniously removed.
  6. The no-apostrophe rule has been reaffirmed five times, yet punctuationists fight on.
  7. Jennifer Runyon, one of the name committee's three staffers, says: "We don't debate the apostrophe."
  8. Before she reached the house, Gouvernail had lighted a fresh cigar and ended his apostrophe to the night.
  9. Apostrophe usage is not consistent in the text as in using both dont and dont.
  10. In truth, there was good ground for his sorrowful apostrophe, for the scene was very painful to a high-minded witness.
  11. It intentionally begins with an apostrophe, not an unmatched single quotation mark, and was left as originally printed.
  12. S—A—R—, and so on, the thing ran, but the whole legend was complete before that apostrophe started into its place.