Apostrophes

If you go back to your article and read again carefully, you will be able to avoid some of the common mistakes. This could be your proofreading or copy-editing. When professional take up your documents for an English check, they first look for the common mistakes.

Proofreading experts say that you can never exaggerate the importance of a second reading of your writing.

We will see some of those mistakes

• Apostrophes: Usually these are used to denote ownership or to denote that you are omitting some letters.
  John’s >> belongs to John
  Don’t? >> do not
  Omitting the apostrophes is a very common mistake.
• You should know where to use the punctuation marks.
  Is it Sister’s or Sisters’?
  Which is right?
  Sister’s >> this is correct when you say it belongs to your sister.
  Sisters’ >> this is correct when you say it belongs to your sisters.
  
• Use of apostrophes in a wrong place changes the meaning; therefore it is a mistake.
• Transposition mistake is a mistake which also can be corrected if you read the text again. Two letters get interchanged in these cases.
  e.g., friend / freind or glory / groly or tier / tire lien/lein

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