By Plurals, Contractions

Rule One: Don't ever use apostrophes when you are making a plural. Apostrophe's in your title is incorrect. Rule Two: Use apostrophes when you are making a possessive. Sometimes it goes before the s and sometimes after the s. You need to learn the rule and if you search this site...

"Pizzas" is the plural: "We sell pizzas." "Pizza's" is a possessive: "The pizza's topping was delicious." "Pizza's" is also a contraction: "Pizza's my favorite food."

I think the p's and q's argument is most salient here. The apostrophe is used for the sake of clarity. While conventionally used for the possessive, the apostrophe is also used to indicate vernacular omissions and contractions, such as in the cases of "Ol' Dirty ***" or...

1. The possessive of a plural noun ending in s is formed by adding: A. another s and an apostrophe. B. another s only. C. an apostrophe only. D. none of the above I think the answer is C. 2. Which of the following shows the correct possessive form of a plural noun? A. three dogs bowls B....

Anonymous wrote:How's is pronounced . Traditionally, the RP pronunciation has been /haʊsIz/, although I suppose some speakers equate the vowel sound with that of 'beat' (half-long) these days. I was trying to be brief and therefore didn't go into details. How's and house are different in that...

Anonymous wrote:I'm thinking the highlighted word should be you're. Am I correct? (Feel free to highlight any other errors - it's not my sentence!)Regards,Rob"Now I know that YOUR sitting there thinking that the books are meant for kids, but come on 500 pages to get going is poor by any...

LOL, ok."There's + plural" seems common, but I don't know how common, I'm not a native speaker and I don't listen to much English yet. However, I heard it and read it several times...The interesting thing is that you can't replace it with "there is", you can only use the contraction...

you forgot some of the most important contraction forms such as ustacud- to have been able to in the past tense yawntu- do you want to jeetyet- an inquisition into someones hunger whatdayalauw- I suppose this means what do you think but it has never really made any sense at...

I agree that it's useless to add apostrophe-s to indicate is when the word ends in a sibilant (i.e., would take -es to form a plural). In these cases the apostrophe-s looks very strange, and nothing is gained where pronunciation is concerned. But in all other cases (regardless of whether...

Kooyeen wrote:Well, for example, I don't like "Your snack's nasty", (I do.) but I would say "Your dinner's ready". (Me too.) That's like "Mike's here". (Sounds fine to me.) I'm not sure the contraction "s" sounds good after a voiceless sound, because it'd () be pronounced as an "s" sound (The...