Do you know how to use apostrophes?

Jambala

James' or James's

Mr Jones's or Mr Jones'

Either are acceptable these days. Personally, I don't like s-apostrophe-s.

James(es)

Naforan

10/10 on the easy one and 8/10 on the hard one.
I thought I was better than that, now my brains's hurt!
N.A.Foran

Patti27

Terribly Tricky - 9/10 (I was torn between 2 answers, unfortunately I picked the wrong one!)

Devilishly Difficult - 7/10

Normally I'm awful at these types quizzes so I'm actually quite impressed with myself!

RuthnJasper

I always remember my English lesson on apostrophes with Mr. Charde (brilliant teacher) back in the late 80s...

The cat and its tail.

It's the cat's tail.

The apostrophe always replaces something (a letter or one or several words) to shorten the sentence.

In the second sentence, the longer version would be:

It(i)s the cat(to which belong)s(the) tail.

You scored: 10/10
All hail the apostrophe monarch! Give yourself a pat on the back.

You scored: 10/10
Congratulations! You're the apostrophe champion!

There's another reason why I do well at this - one of my first jobs was doing typing in an office run by a slightly odd individual. If I made one single mistake, the whole day's typing would be torn into pieces and thrown in my face and I'd have to do it again.

- but I soon learned about apostrophes, punctuation and grammar...

Fellwalker

Initially I got 5/10 on TT and 5/10 on FD, but when I had another go at FD, (the questions change each time so it wasn't a case of choosing from the remaining two answers from the first time!) I got 10/10.

Each error, it was the possessives that got me with people's names. I found as commented above, Charles' is what I'd expected.

Tigsteroonie

10/10 on both

Heinz

Apostrophe?

Whats that?:)

davetheginge

There is healthy competition between all the ____.

DJs was my answer, it said DJ's. I despair.

JimmyTheWig

I agree, davetheginge. No missing letter there.

d70cw6

i was marked down for " Mars' "
Didnt think it was wrong tbh