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This is not intended to be a teaching program, but rather a reiteration and practice tape based on the use of the apostrophe.

It assumes prior instruction and contains only sketchy examples of use. Practice sentences can be input by the user as an option.

You manipulate a blackbird to drop a "worm", the apostrophe, into the correct place in the sentence. If this process is completed often enough, you get the "reward" of playing a rudimentary arcade style game.

If you fail often enough, you are shown the correct answer. A certificate of results is printed by the ZX Printer if attached.

This work would normally be tacked with children of 11 years and older. Will they really be attracted by "dicky birds", worms, butterflies and helicopters?

Though some use is made of large characters and even a user-defined apostrophe, when the exercises are printed, it's in the normal Spectrum character set, and the apostrophe is all but lost on the Spectrum's shimmering screen.

D.M.