punctuation vs apostrophe

apostrophe vs punctuation

punctuation and apostrophe both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
punctuation	Yes	No	No	No
apostrophe	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, apostrophe is a hyponym of punctuation; that is, apostrophe is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than punctuation:

punctuation: the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
apostrophe: the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

Other hyponyms of punctuation include ampersand, brace, bracket, square bracket, angle bracket, bracket, colon, comma, exclamation mark, exclamation point, dash, hyphen, parenthesis, full point, full stop, period, point, stop, interrogation point, question mark, inverted comma, quotation mark, quote, semicolon, diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule, swung dash.

punctuation (noun)	apostrophe (noun)
the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases	address to an absent or imaginary person
the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases	the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions

Difference between punctuation and apostrophe

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