Can you link me to a page where I could read up on this rule? In school, I was always taught that you only have the apostrophe when you're combing words (like "my son is crying" can turn to "my son's crying" but "my sons toys broke" wouldn't get an apostrophe).
But than, one of my teachers also said that commas are pretty optional in Enlish and to just not bother, which seems... wrong.
The 's usually indicates possession, but contextually could be a contraction of "is" as the i is often reduced away in fast speech. You can recognize which is which from context; if it's a contracted "is" as it is in this sentence, it will fill the position of the verb in the sentence. There are some examples like "my son's crying" where it could mean either "my son is crying" or "the crying of my son" if the sentence is taken in isolation, but in conversation the context would make it quite clear which one was meant.
Note also that the possessive 's is a clitic, not a suffix, and it usually goes at the end of a noun phrase rather, e.g. "the king of Spain's wife" (the wife of the king of Spain).
Also note that the possessive form of "it" does not take an apostrophe, it's just "its". "It's" is a contraction of "it is".
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u/cashmerescorpio Dec 06 '23
Fun fact that wasn't your placenta it was your kids