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Comma vs Apostrophe - What's the difference?

comma | apostrophe |

As nouns the difference between comma and apostrophe

is that comma is punctuation]] mark ([[, ) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list) while apostrophe is (orthography) the text character , which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts or apostrophe can be (rhetoric) a sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

comma

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Punctuation]] mark ([[, ) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).
  • (by extension) A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian.
  • A European and North American butterfly, , of the family Nymphalidae.
  • (music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
  • (genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
  • In Ancient Greek rhetoric a comma (?????) is a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables. This term is later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
  • Derived terms

    (punctuation mark) * commaless * Harvard comma * inverted comma * Oxford comma * serial comma

    See also

    (punctuation)

    apostrophe

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) apostrophe, or (etyl) apostrophus, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (orthography) The text character , which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
  • Derived terms
    * greengrocer's apostrophe
    Usage notes
    In English, the apostrophe is used to mark the possessive or to show the omission of letters or numbers.
    See also
    * (wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) apostrophe, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
  • Derived terms
    * apostrophically