- It has a role to play in contractions - Mark is often abused ... perhaps too complicated? - Mark’s essential when contractions are happening! - Punctuation mark - Punctuation symbol - Raised comma in text - A figure of speech by which the orator or writer
suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and
addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or
present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third
book of "Paradise Lost."