Kapr, Albert (1993). Fraktur: Form und Geschichte der gebrochenen Schriften. Mainz: H. Schmidt. p.81. ISBN 3-87439-260-0. As Kinsey interviews everyone she can in the small working class town of Serena Station California, she finds the townspeople reluctant to give her any information, not happy she is digging up old dirt. They are protective of one another and just want to leave the past where they believe it belongs, in the past. But Kinsey persists and discovers similar threads in many of their stories. Most believe that Violet’s husband Foley killed her, that she ran off with a lover or she simply escaped a difficult life and started again somewhere else. If she did run off, they feel she should be left alone. She deserved a better life than the one she had with Foley. Other forms such as “our’s,”“your’s,”“her’s,” and “their’s” simply aren’t real words. Apostrophe “s” as a contraction of “is” or “has” In this the 19th in the Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton, Kinsey is asked to investigate a cold case. What happened to Wife, Mother & town floozy Violet Sullivan, who disappeared 35 years ago? Most people still around from then, believe one of two scenarios. She left town with one of her many male “friends” or she was murdered by her abusive drunk husband Foley. Did we use yes it’s correctly? Yes, as we can tell if we write out it’s fully: She misplaced her phone, but she thinks it is in her car.

Grafton takes a different approach with this narrative, running two parallel story lines, one during 1953 when Violet disappeared and the second in 1987 as Kinsey works the case. It’s important not to add an apostrophe to these words, especially when they can be easily confused with contractions:Stray bits of information come out, some of it kept from the authorities for years. Kinsey develops a handful of suspects with credible motives and she knows she is getting closer when someone breaks into her motel room and the tires on her car are slashed.

of July 1953, Violet is getting herself ready for the festive night. In walks Liza Mellincamp, who has been hired to babysit Violet's 7 year old daughter, Daisy. Liza is in awe of Violet. Violet is ready and takes off with her new Pomeranian puppy, Baby, in her brand-new Bel Aire. She was never seen after this day. Irregular plurals with endings other than ‘s’ (e.g. children) always take ’s: the children ’s voices. For example, to describe the roofs of multiple houses, you would write “the houses’ roofs” (“the house’s roofs” would refer to multiple roofs on one house). You’ll also commonly see an apostrophe followed by an “s” used to indicate a contraction of “is” or “has” with the previous word. You can tell which word it’s short for based on the context (e.g., “my car’s [car is] not very fast”; “my car’s [car has] got a few dents”).Nouns that look and sound identical in the singular and plural still do when this suffix is attached, so “one moose” becomes “one moose’s” and “two moose” becomes “two moose’s”. People are particularly likely to believe an apostrophe is needed when pluralizing nouns ending in vowel sounds (e.g., “frisbee’s”), numbers or decades (e.g., “1980’s”), surnames (e.g., “Jones’s”), or acronyms (e.g., “TV’s”), but the apostrophe is wrong in all of these contexts. The correct forms are “frisbees,”“1980s,”“Joneses,” and “TVs.” Exception: Pluralizing letters In the example above, the “a” in “am” has been omitted and the way that we show this in writing is by using an apostrophe. S’ or s’s?