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The apostrophe can:

1) substitute for a word/space in a contraction.

2) show possession when placed at the end of a word and followed by 's', save for words that end in 's' or the word 'its'.

3) be used instead of a 'g' in the progressive tense (is doing, was doing, etc.).
1) He's climbing pretty rapidly.

2) Stephanie's shorts were too small, but nobody complained.

3) I'm checkin' e-mail.
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1-A punctuation mark used by morons and idiots to pluralize words or to conjugate verbs in the third-person singular form.

2-A punctuation mark used to show possession of something.

3-Shows omission of one or more letters within a contraction
4-(American system) Used to set aside quotations within quotations.
1-He want's to see his parent's.

2-"Bob's X"==the X belonging to Bob.

3-couldn't, they're, he'll, I'm, you'd

4-Then, Mark said, "Dude, I hate to tell you, but Sheila said 'I wouldn't go out with him if he were the last man on earth.' Tough break, man."
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The one thing that you always hit right before hitting enter.'

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Person 1: (Insert random message here)'
Person 2: (Insert random response here)'
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The apostrophy is important in creating names
CKabsuer' and hurensohn abuser' are top 10 on RaNNtei$ for a reason.
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Can replace any letter in any word.

It is used in two ways. In an understandable way like bean' which is obviously beans or in a confusing way like r'd which could be red or rad.
I like 'en be'aus' they are nice
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