An apostrophe is used to show possession.

撇被用来所有格。

They don't walk like ordinary dogs, but leap and somersault like an apostrophe and comma.

它们不是像平常的狗那么走路，而是一蹦一跳，翻着筋斗前进，像一个撇和一个逗。

The word 'apostrophe' itself – which language does it come from?

撇这个词本身是来自哪种语言？

So the apostrophe S shows that the mother belongs to the friend.

撇 S 是我朋友的母亲。

First, let's look at how the apostrophe marks possession.

首先，让我们看一下撇怎样所有格。

The apostrophe is placed before the 's'.

撇放在了“s”之前。

Now, did you wonder why teams has an apostrophe after it?

现在，你是否好奇为什么“teams”后面会有一个撇呢？

I'm also going to focus on contractions that have apostrophes.

我还将关注带有撇的缩写。

It's, the last contraction is it's, it's, so similar to he's and she's which we talked about before. It's with the apostrophe s here I should note can refer to it is or it has.

最后一个缩写是it's，与我们之前讨论过的he's和she's非常相似。撇s可以指it is或it has。

Even the exclamation point was left off of early models, assuming that users could type a period, then backspace and add an apostrophe to make a close approximation.

就连感叹（！）在早期打字机上都没有专属键位，厂商默认用户可以先打一个句（。），退格键，在句上方加一个撇（’），勉强拼成一个类似感叹的符。

And just like here, the apostrophe will show that the next syllable is stressed, so we're going to make it higher and stronger, okay?

就像这里一样，撇会明下一个音节是重读的，所以我们要把它读得更重。

And by the way note that here becomes I'm using double quotes, I can easily use a single quote as an apostrophe, okay?

顺便说一下，这里变成了我使用双引，我可以很容易地使用单引作为撇，好吗？

Eric Turkewitz, a New York lawyer, called the debate " apostrophe hell" on the social media website X.

纽约律师埃里克·图克维茨在社交媒体网站 X 上称这场辩论为“撇地狱”。

The apostrophe is not used to show there is more than one, it's used to show there is a missing letter or that the word is a possessive, it's just wrong!

撇不是用来不止一个，它是用来省略一个字母或者那个词是一个所有格，出租车的那种用法是错误的！

I'm gonna add an apostrophe s.

我要加上撇 s。

This construction with of is very common in languages like German but in English, it is much more common to use that possessive apostrophe S when we're talking about people and use of when we're talking about things.

这个带 of 的结构在德语等语言中很常见，但是在英语中，当我们谈论人时，所有格撇 S 更常见，当我们谈论事物时，使用 of 更常见。

If it is, use an apostrophe.

如果是，就使用撇。

The use of the apostrophe in possessives is probably due to the fact that in Old English, many possessive nouns were formed by adding " es" , as in the king is thrown.

撇用于所有格，其起源可能与古英语的习惯有关：当时许多所有格名词是通过在词尾加 “es” 构成的，比如 “the kinges throne”。

He said that until the 17th or 18th century, the possessive of proper names ending in the letter " s" — such as Jesus or Moses — often was simply the name itself with no apostrophe or additional " s."

他说，直到 17 或 18 世纪，以字母“s”结尾的专有名词的所有格——如耶稣或摩西——通常仅是名字本身，没有撇或额外的“s”。

In the other sentence he's been on the phone all day, we see the past participle form of be, been, he has been. So we understand the s apostrophe s is actually has there not is.

在另一句he's been on the phone all day中，我们看到了be的过去分词形式been。所以我们明白撇s实际上是has而不是is。