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This article has been taken from tech radar and focuses on Facebook buying the messaging app Whatsapp.

“Facebook’s purchase of WhatsApp for $16 billion (about £9.5b/AU$17.7b) isn’t supposed to change the popular instant messaging app, but it certainly changes the landscape of the real-time messaging services.”

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/what-s-up-with-facebook-buying-whatsapp-it-s-about-the-developing-world-1226429

The first paragraph shows good examples of using apostrophes appropriately. “Facebook’s” and “isn’t.”

Here Facebook’s purchase of Whatsapp indicates belonging and possession.

“Isn’t,” an apostrophe is used to show that a letter is missing in the contraction form.

These are the main 2 uses of apostrophe and should be used correctly. You can go through our Grammar Bytes blogs to look at this in more detail as there are some exceptions.

Many of us use an apostrophe when writing plurals of words for example in the 3rd paragraph the words, ”chatters, appears and users” are all plurals and do not have apostrophes as the rule of apostrophes does not apply to plurals. We need to understand when it is appropriate to use them.

This article has been taken from tech radar and focuses on Facebook buying the messaging app Whatsapp.

“Facebook’s purchase of WhatsApp for $16 billion (about £9.5b/AU$17.7b) isn’t supposed to change the popular instant messaging app, but it certainly changes the landscape of the real-time messaging services.”

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/what-s-up-with-facebook-buying-whatsapp-it-s-about-the-developing-world-1226429

The first paragraph shows good examples of using apostrophes appropriately. “Facebook’s” and “isn’t.”

Here Facebook’s purchase of Whatsapp indicates belonging and possession.

“Isn’t,” an apostrophe is used to show that a letter is missing in the contraction form.

These are the main 2 uses of apostrophe and should be used correctly. You can go through our Grammar Bytes blogs to look at this in more detail as there are some exceptions.

Many of us use an apostrophe when writing plurals of words for example in the 3rd paragraph the words, ”chatters, appears and users” are all plurals and do not have apostrophes as the rule of apostrophes does not apply to plurals. We need to understand when it is appropriate to use them.

Can you find any other words that have used an apostrophe?