--- title: National Punctuation Day: Take TIME's Apostrophe Quiz description: To celebrate National Punctuation Day, TIME put together an interactive challenge: Restore the apostrophes to the following two sentences. canonical: https://time.com/4505123/national-punctuation-day-apostrophe-quiz/ author: Chris Wilson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-23T19:32:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:46.625Z og:title: Celebrate National Punctuation Day With Our Apostrophe Quiz og:description: Can you find all the missing apostrophes? og:url: https://time.com/4505123/national-punctuation-day-apostrophe-quiz/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Celebrate National Punctuation Day With Our Apostrophe Quiz twitter:description: Can you find all the missing apostrophes? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # It's or Its? Celebrate National Punctuation Day With Our Apostrophe Challenge  by [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/)  ## Chris Wilson Sep 23, 2016 7:32 PM UTC  by [Chris Wilson](https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/)  ## Chris Wilson Sep 23, 2016 7:32 PM UTC Saturday marks [National Punctuation Day](http://time.com/4048474/national-punctuation-day-quiz/), the 13th observance of the holiday since it was beatified by [Chase’s Calendar of Events in 2004](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/happy-national-punctuation-day/). To anyone who sees this holiday as superfluous, I would direct you to _New Yorker_ grammarian-in-chief Louis Menand, [who once wrote that](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/06/28/bad-comma), “For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word ‘Book’s’ with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated.” To celebrate the occasion, TIME put together the following interactive challenge: Restore the apostrophes to the following two sentences. To play, click the space between or after letters to insert an apostrophe. If you change your mind, just click the apostrophe to remove it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4505123/national-punctuation-day-apostrophe-quiz/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4505123/national-punctuation-day-apostrophe-quiz/"},"headline":"It's or Its? Celebrate National Punctuation Day With Our Apostrophe Challenge","datePublished":"2016-09-23T19:32:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:46.625Z","description":"Can you find all the missing apostrophes?","url":"https://time.com/4505123/national-punctuation-day-apostrophe-quiz/","keywords":["Living","language","quiz","interactive"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Wilson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-wilson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4505123/national-punctuation-day-apostrophe-quiz/","name":"It's or Its? Celebrate National Punctuation Day With Our Apostrophe Challenge"}}]}] ```