I don't always understand apostrophes. I try my best, but appologise if I get it wrong some times. I am reading a book at the moment called The Waiting Room by F. G. Cottam. It's not a very good book, but strangely there aren't any appostrophied words, which sounds really odd. It's set in modern day and the bloke being haunted is a retired rock star, so it sounds really out of place when he says "I did not" or "I was not". It's really off-putting and just sounds all wrong. I don't know if it's supposed to make it sound more like a traditional ghost story, but it gets the thumbs down from me. Shell.