What does an apostrophe look like?
An apostrophe looks like this ‘ It looks a bit like a comma except it goes up at the top of the line. So why do we need to use commas and apostrophes in our sentences? Commas There’s this cool book by Lynne Truss called Eats, Shoots and Leaves, which is all about punctuation. On the back cover of the book it has a little explanation about the title on the front cover, and goes like this: A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air and walks out. When the panda was asked why he had shot his gun, he explained that he was just doing what it said in the wildlife manual: Panda. Large bear-like mammal that eats, shoots and leaves. The words shoots and leaves have two meanings: First meaning: A plant has shoots (new growth) and leaves. Second meaning: Someone shoots with a gun and leaves a place. Because someone had put a comma between the words eats and shoots, it changed the whole meaning of the sentence. Lets look at how it shou
