Performance Gap. Background. In recent years, the housebuilding industry and government have grown increasingly concerned over the potential gap between design and as-built energy performance.
The apostrophe (â or ') is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets.In English, it serves three purposes: 1  The marking of the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don't).he apostrophe (â or ') is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves three purposes: 1  The marking of the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don't).
1 Answer 1. An apostrophe is only used within or at the very end of a word - it is part of the word. The marking of the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don't). The marking of possessive case (as in the cat's whiskers).