I am a professional writer. Occasionally, I click send on an email only to glance at it again and release a long, horrible, Skywalker-esque “noooooooooooooooo!’

I’ve missed an apostrophe.

Luckily, thanks to the flowchart created over at the Oatmeal, this ghastly happenstance need never occur again.

click image to see full flowchart

This is just a segment of the full flowchart. If you have a lot of trouble with rules like this, or teach English to the apostrophatically challenged, they also make a poster.

This flowchart is an interesting variant on the standard form. It blends the usual bubble/arrow layout with more extensive copy. In this case, I’d say their format works well. The flowchart is easy to read,  graphically engaging and plenty useful. Kudos Oatmeal.

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