By Dates, Apostrophes

Memos show Clinton turmoilQuestion: I would have written ''Clinton's turmoil''. Why didn't the author use apostrophe?BY CRAIG GORDON AND TOM BRUNE | <email addresses removed by mod.>August 13, 2008Question: Why is semicolon used instead of comma to separate the email...

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Another opinion... From the Gregg Reference Manual: When words taken from other parts of speech are used as nouns, they are usually pluralized by the addition of s or es. Ifs, ands, or buts Dos and don’ts Yeses and nos Ins and outs Ups and downs Yeas and nays Pros and...

--- There was formerly a respectable tradition (17-19c) of using the apostrophe for noun plurals, especially in loanwords ending in a vowel (as in We do confess Errata's, Leonard Lichfield, 1641, and Comma's are used, Philip Luckcombe, 1771) and in the consonants s, z, ch, sh, (as in waltz's and...

Hi Doll, I didn't expect to make so many mistakes. Are you sure all that you've marked is wrong? It's mostly apostrophes though. I'm not that bad. Am I? So, the most pink sentence should be: The stake of Penta in the fund of Restitucny investicny (RIF) share capital increased...

I assume that we have a problem showing your apostrophes and they are coming out as spaces instead? and I m a laywer since October 23 rd of 2006 with a cum laude. - this is confusing. Is this the date you graduated your law degree? Or are you saying you have practiced as a lawyer? A law degree...

Actually, I think I have already said what I had to say in my response to your post about the cats and alligators. But I'll go over some of your concerns:I think I saw from a post here that kind of said that many times, having "descriptive adjectives" in front of UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS trigger the...

Obviously, depending on where we learned English, it has some bearing on our understanding toward some of the most common debated questions. To validate my own understanding, I did some searching and came to a conclusion, In the US, some experts agree that either singular or plural is...

I am college freshman writing a business letter for my dad's business oversea. I'm doing so because no one at his place speaks/writers acceptable English. So, I am drafted to write a letter (not e-mail) for him to a big company requesting for partnership. The my dad's marketing manager sketched...

Grandmother's making me a new blue blanket. Can you tell me about the " 's " in Grandmother's? I'm confused about the use of the apostrophy. From the www.Dr.Grammar.org The apostrophe is used for three purposes: to indicate the omission of one or more letters (can't, don't) or figures...