Apostrophe

Okay kiddo, today we're going to learn about apostrophes! An apostrophe is a little symbol that looks like this: '.

We use the apostrophe in two main ways: to show that something belongs to someone or something else, or to show that some letters are missing.

Let's start with the first way. Say you have a friend named Max. If you want to talk about something that belongs to Max - like his toy, for example - you would write "Max's toy." The apostrophe after Max's name shows that the toy belongs to him.

Now let's move on to the second way we use apostrophes. Sometimes we shorten words by leaving out some letters, like when we say "can't" instead of "cannot." When we do this, we use an apostrophe to show where the missing letters used to be. For example, "I'm" is short for "I am," so we write it with an apostrophe to show that we left out the "a."

Overall, apostrophes might seem a little tricky at first, but they help us write and talk about things in a clear and easy-to-understand way.