No, no apostrophe in the 1600s . The apostrophe is a possessive marker, not a plural marker. It is grudgingly approved only in a very limited number of cases which would otherwise look confusing, as in this: mind your p's and q's .

Type is too tiny...I see I missed the opening "I's." However, my grammar books accept the apostrophe after numbers made plural. Without is also correct, but with is perfectly fine.

dimsum, your examples don't apply. Fifty percent of something plural is still plural. One-third of something plural is still plural. I agree. There is a separate rule for percentages and fractions, but that rule doesn't apply in this

dimsum, your examples don't apply. Fifty percent of something plural is still plural. One-third of something plural is still plural. Anon, the subject of entire sentence is Google docs, but it's not the subject of the clause we are

English presents a number of issues to non-native (and sometimes native) speakers. It is grammatically unlike other languages, even those from which it has borrowed large vocabulary groups, and possesses a number of irregularities. Understanding

Hi, A very minor comment that you don't need to use a capital letter for the word 'class'. Clive

Dear friend, both a correct, but the first option is generally more common among British English speakers. The choice of the pronoun largely depends on your intention: if you wish to speak of a class as a number of individuals, you should resort

They went back to the store again looking for another cart but there were/was none. Shouldn't it be was since cart is singular? I think I failed miserably to make my point. Yes, the verb agrees with "none," but if I'm not

Hi chattt, Welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us. Sorry your post slipped thru the cracks. Everything you say is correct. When you ask if the sentence is "true," do you mean "is it correct?" Yes, it's correct.

Hi, I would like to know the possible meanings of the words "splibby" and "splabibs" in the first stanza of Harryette Mullen's poem below. Elsewhere on-line I found out a short story with the following dialogue