Apostrophe vs. Single Quote - English Language Usage Stack Exchange TLDR: The apostrophe's proper useage denotes possessive form or missing letters numbers The 'Single Quote' is to denote a quote within a quote Also, often used for emphasis Apostrophes Apostrophes are utilized to denote possessive form of a noun and or the missing letters numbers when: contracting multiple words shortening a single word or
English notation for hour, minutes and seconds I'm more used to "01:05:56", for example How do you represent the hour, minutes, and seconds using the apostrophe and quotes punctuations? Which is for the hour, which is for minutes, and which is for seconds? Is it the common way to write duration of time elapsed? Do they have a special pronunciation?
apostrophe - Is it mens or mens? And whats the rule? - English . . . So after you get out you can just omit the apostrophe like we do in speaking and write mens room the way it's pronounced Most native speakers don't care and don't notice It's only English teachers (particularly in non-Anglophone countries) that care
How to put possessive s after a full company name This does show that an apostrophe can be attached to Ltd in this way, but in so far as the OP is seeking practical advice on how to deal with such names, the most important response to the question is the one given by Ms Bunting in a comment: 'There's no need to add Ltd or its equivalents every time you mention the company's name' In an article about a business one may, perhaps, state its
grammar - Two years experience or two years experience or two years . . . 0 I will disagree, and support the position that an apostrophe indicating possession is now not necessary in such phrases - where the plural is being used So two weeks notice and two years experience are acceptable, however in the singular, the apostrophe is still required: one year's experience, or one week's notice