By Apostrophes, Numbers

It should be either "The police's phone number..." or even "The police phone number...". The second option does not illustrate a possesive, but rather changes the entire subject to "police phone number". Because "police's" sounds a little funny,...

There are people who, for some reason, will insert an apostrophe to form the plural any time they feel the least bit insecure about the way the word looks. (In this case perhaps the writer was worried that John would confuse the plural of "logo" with the Greek "logos." ) I...

It's hard to tell with the *** what the original sentence was supposed to mean. You would use an apostrophe in something like this: Enter the applicant's account number, press F1, and then verify the applicant's Social Security number and address.

I know we have to use apostrophe to show possession but I saw there are cases where you don't have to use it. For example, "Enter the HP *** account number". Shouldn't it be "Enter the HP ***'s account number"?

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Hi, I have difficulty figuring out how to write the word that follows something like an 'as much/twice as something' or 'twice as something' expression -- should it be in a 'plain' form or in the possessive? I feel some people are unable to correctly the right situations...

Mister Micawber wrote: 1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops? 2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She told me," I want to go out. " or She told me," I want to...

1) What can we call the package that helicopters throw on the land when there is a catastrophe happens? -- (Emergency) Aid packages? Air drops? 2) About punctuation, should we punctuate before or after the : She told me," I want to go out. " or She told me," I want to go out".) -- Most...

Hi Explor1ing, I'm confused too. Which of the two nouns needs to be plural? Both? The meaning of the sentence is unclear. How do you make a category? Are you cataloguing books? Setting up a new system? If you wanted to say, "How many book categories are there?" then "book" is acting like...

Hoa Thai wrote:Besides these two examples, my Google search from a gateway in Vietnam shows more than 180,000 hits using the same phrase, "In this days". They cannot be all wrong!Could you please explain? Hi Hoa ThaiI'd say they ARE indeed all wrong. From what I saw (doing the same search),...