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Hello. :-) Today I wrote an email referring to paragraphs in a journalist's article, and was corrected for my use of abbreviation combined with apostrophes. I believe I was correct in my usage, but I'd like to ask on here. The context of the usage in the original email was: "the...

Thx, Miche. I went to the link and found the article most amusing. Thx.

Thx, Miche! Will take a look at the article.

No, Sunu, I wouldn't use sentence #2. As far as sentence #1 is concerned, it reminds me of an argument I read about recently. Have a look at it: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/ar-pos1.htm

In the phrase, "do's and don't's, " what is the proper use of the apostrophes used to pluralize these words? For example, it may be written in an article as "The do's and don't's of successful gardening." I have seen it written as "dos and don'ts," "do's and don'ts," etc. What is proper for this...

There is a very similar question to yours on this forum. My answer then was: "I have yet to find grammar software that works. As they can still only perform mathematical checks of words and sentences, grammar checkers tend to miss lots of errors and often suggest wrong versions. Microsoft's...

I have yet to find grammar software that works. As they can still only perform mathematical checks of words and sentences, grammar checkers tend to miss lots of errors and often suggest wrong versions. Microsoft's grammar checker is doubtless a brilliant piece of programming, but it misses around...

Care for a little language? My heart leapt a little when I read the following in the New York Times — this was an article by Fox Butterfield about prisons: "But Texas officials say they learned the seriousness of cellphones' being smuggled into prisons only during a recent undercover...

Use the apostrophe when the word is followed by another thing or person that it "owns" in some way. Some examples of when to use the apostrophe: The book's cover was stained. The report's second chapter was long. The text's author has written many articles. If it's plural and "owning" the next...

Michelle and John's party- they are engaged. Supposedly they are getting married and they are giving a party. It's their engagement party. Using the article after the second noun means that it refers to the first, too. They are conveived as a unit. The apostrophe indirectly applies to the first...