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Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Apostrophe

Definition:

An apostrophe is an address to:

  • an absent person, or
  • a personified abstraction or thing.
Examples:

(English)

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!
(Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the World)

Source:

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.

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