You can use apostrophes to show that you have omitted (left out) some letters when you are joining words together. For example, you can join the words ‘you’ and ‘are’ together. You + are = you're. The ...

From the sweeping views of his Talmadge backyard, Michael Pound spotted the column of black smoke. It was perhaps a half mile away, in the vegetation at the bottom of the canyon. Not particularly ...