The apostrophe indicates a sound which is frequently uttered, but not written, in English.(這個撇號在英語里表示頻繁的念出來但是不寫出來的音。)

Before the seventeenth century the apostrophe was rare.(17世紀以前，撇號很少被運用。)

The apostrophe is used to express possession.(撇號用來表達所有格。)

A possessive noun is formed by adding apostrophe 's' (' s) to a noun.(所有格名詞是表示擁有權的名詞。)

The fourth line is particularly troubling because not only is the apostrophe missing but so is the substitution parameter.(第四行特別麻煩，因為不僅遺漏了撇號，而且還遺漏了替代參數！)

The purdue online writing lab also explains how to use an apostrophe correctly in possessives and other cases.(普渡在線寫作研究室也解釋了如何在所有格及其它時態中如何正確使用撇號。)

I put that word on the page, but he added the apostrophe.(我在紙上寫下那個詞，但他加了那一撇。)

Listing 11 shows an example of the escape sequences for a string that USES a single quote as an apostrophe.(清單11顯示了一個轉義字符串序列，它使用了一個引號作為省略號。)

The code in Listing 2 has no mystery about what a particular semicolon or apostrophe means.(在特定分號或撇號的含義方面，清單2中的代碼沒有任何隱晦之處。)

Before she reached the house, Gouvernail had lighted a fresh cigar and ended his apostrophe to the night.(在她回到住宅前，高維內爾重新點燃了一直雪茄，結束了他對夜晚的感嘆。)