Today I want to talk about the use of an apostrophe. Apostrophes are tricky little suckers; sometimes they indicate that a word is possesive (i.e., Larry's truck), and sometimes they indicate that the word is a contraction (i.e., "don't" for "do not.")
However, an apostrophe never (never, never, never!) indicates that a word is plural. For example, if you sign your Christmas cards, "Love, the Smith's," you have written an incomplete sentence, because that one little apostrophe is saying that the Smiths are possessive of something and you have not specified what that something is (Love, the Smith's cat? Love, the Smith's chimney sweep?)
To make "Smith" plural (as in, more than one Smith) you would just add an 'S': Love, the Smiths.
The misuse of apostrophes in advertisements and billboards tend to drive grammarians insane: Lots of Movie's to Choose From! All You Can Eat Rib's! I would love to go around to all of the grammatically incorrect signs of the world and correct them, but alas, I would probably be arrested...and thrown into an insane asylum.
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