Questions about possessive aposthrophes?

Question

When do you use it?
What about the statement: Yesterday's rain melted all the snow. (Is this an example? Does the rain belong to yesterday? - ) Please explain your answer.

Answer 1

Yes, the rain belonged to yesterday.
You use apostrophes before the s when you make a singular word or name possessive: "Kate's dog ate all the sandwiches."
And use it after the s in plural possessive words: "The workers' jobs were fulfilling."
And if there is a word that ends in an s normally (like the name, Charles) you can write Charles' or Charles's.

Answer 2

You use it when you want to ad something to what you want to say that in itself will break your paragraph but is to small or not important enough to get one of it's own. You would not use it like in your example unless it is a style element in a short story. For instance when your character is thinking something you could use ().

He looked at her. "I really like it when a woman takes care of herself (And looks this hot)"