More about apostrophes and their history
Posted by Editor on March 22, 2010 in Basic Grammar | ∞
Sometimes I think we should just be done with the damn things. But they do help us distinguish between possessive singulars and possessive plurals. I got so many questions about apostrophes that I made up this canned answer to send attached to specific questions. An apostrophe is used to indicate missing letters. This is easy [...]
Apopoleptic over Apostrophes
Posted by Editor on March 22, 2010 in Basic Grammar | ∞
Elizabeth asks: Are the apostrophes in this sentence in the correct places? Is the Distributors’ discount available for University’s. No there should be no apostrophe on “universities.” It is a simple plural. The first apostrophe is debatable. One could consider the discount is for each distributor, in which case the apostrophe should come before the [...]
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