74 / PART ONE: THE BASICS UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund UFO Unidentified Flying Object VAT Value Added Tax REVISING THE POINTS ◆ The apostrophe is placed before the ‘s’ if the noun is singular. ◆ The apostrophe is placed after the ‘s’ if the noun is plural.XX ◆ If something ‘belongs’, add an ‘s’ and put the apostrophe before it if the plural does not end in ‘s’. ◆ Do not use an apostrophe when using a possessive pronoun. ◆ Remember ‘its’ possessive does not use an apostrophe. ◆ Put a full stop after shortened or abbreviated words. ◆ Do not put a full stop after contractions, in acronyms or when the initial letters only have been used. 1. Put apostrophes in the following passage: PRACTISING WHAT YOU’VE LEARNT Carefully he picked up Johns bundle. It wasnt very heavy. He glanced warily at the caves entrance. It was very dark. The picnic baskets still lay where theyd been thrown. He stepped into the cave and almost fell over a pile of little rubber tubes that looked like mices tails.