Do you get upset, annoyed or angry if you see punctuation being used incorrectly- particularly apostrophes?

如果你看到标点符号——尤其是撇号被错误地使用，你会感到郁闷或生气吗？

And there is only one apostrophe.

而且只有一个撇号。

All right, so when you add the apostrophe " s" , right?

这时你会加上 's，对吧？

I'm also going to focus on contractions that have apostrophes.

我还将关注带有撇号的缩写。

They say that the emergence of text messaging is killing off commas, colons and apostrophes.

他们说短信的出现扼杀了逗号、冒号和省略号。

Certain pronouns already have possession built in and don't need an apostrophe.

一些代名词已经是“所有格”时就不需要撇号。

The last punctuation mark we are going to talk about today is the apostrophe.

我们今天要讲的最后一个是撇号。

And then finally, I'll show you some extra miscellaneous contractions using apostrophes as well.

最后，讲解一下使用省字符的其余不同情况。

An apostrophe is used to show possession.

撇号被用来表示所有格。

The apostrophe -s after " America" shows possession.

America后面的撇号和s表示所有格。

But when it's a possessive pronoun, there's no apostrophe.

但当它是物主代词时，就没有撇号了。

The apostrophe is placed before the 's'.

撇号放在了“s”之前。

The apostrophe 's' shows the money belongs to us.

撇号“s”表示钱是属于我们的。

The word 'apostrophe' itself – which language does it come from?

撇号这个词本身是来自哪种语言？

And you'll notice-very simple-all of them are just apostrophe " d" .

然后你会注意到——非常简单——他们都只是加了个撇号和字母d。

Now let's talk about apostrophes with verb contractions.

下面，我们讲解一下动词缩写中的省字符。

That's a contraction so we need an apostrophe.

这里是缩写词，所以我们需要用撇号。

I'm gonna add an apostrophe s.

我要加上撇号 s。

The word 'apostrophe' itself-which language does it come from?

“撇号”这个词本身——它来自哪种语言？

Well, we just add apostrophe S.

加上省字符和S就可以了。