Apostrophes are the curly floating commas in sentences that usually indicate possession or a contraction. There are a few set phrases and holidays, however, that also use apostrophes. In fact, ...

These are dark times for grammar lovers. The Apostrophe Protection Society is giving up. Retired British journalist John Richards, who founded the punctuation preservation group in 2001, has decided ...

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Let’s face it, grammar is more important for some people than for others. An ambulance driver probably has more important things to worry about than whether to hyphenate adverbs ending in “ly.” (FYI: ...

After VERIFYING how to spell canceled (with one l or two), a viewer asked us to VERIFY another grammar inquiry you might have been breaking for years. Beth Miller from Guilford County asked, "Why ...

Re “Some People Can Get Very Possessive About Apostrophe’s,” Commentary, Dec. 16: For years I have railed and groused about this problem of using apostrophes to indicate plural nouns, but it has only ...