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Grammar and Usage

Abbreviation
Abbreviation are shortened forms of words usually used as a space
saving technique.

Antonym
Antonym refers to a word that is the opposite of another word.

Apostrophe 1
Apostrophe is a figure of speech which take the form of a rhetorical
address to an absent or dead or to a personified thing. Example: “O Romeo!
Romeo! Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

Apostrophe2
Is a form of punctuation that is mainly used to indicate possession.
*possessive nouns are usually formed by adding ‘s to the singular noun – girl’s
mother and peter’s car; by adding an apostrophe to a plural nouns end in s –
all the teachers’ cars; by adding s’ to an irregular plural that do not end in s –
a woman’s shoes.

*in the possessive forms of name or singular noun that ends in s, x, or z, the
apostrophe may or may not followed by s. in words of one syllable the final is
usually added - “James’s house,” “the fox’s lair” “ Roz’s dress”.

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