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Please try to do a little work yourself first: look in your dictionary and read about forming possessives . Post your list here and we will check it. And be careful of your spelling.
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I think it should be ABCs (without the apostrophe). Hi, little, It's not really a possessive or a contraction here. It's like, "She makes her 7's funny." It's a plural. I'm never sure of the best way to do it.
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Hi Twilit Sentence 1 seems to mean that the speaker wants to be like a king or queen to the person he or she is speaking to. It suggests that the speaker wants to rule the other person. The word "wanna" is a slang way of writing
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The way I've always understood it is that no "proper name" may have its spelling disturbed. This includes the names of products. I own two Nintendo Wii's. There are two Jones'{s] living on Elm Street. Then there's the
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1. He 's just eaten. (He has just eat e n.) 2. An average of one baby 's kidnapped every day. (An average of one baby is kidnapped every day) Same as 5. 3. The fish 's eaten yesterday. (The fish was eaten yesterday) No contraction for
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califjim
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Hi, 1. He 's just eaten. (He has just eatn) 2. An average of one baby 's kidnapped every day. (An average of one baby is kidnapped every day) 3. The fish 's eaten yesterday. (The fish was eaten yesterday) We don't abbreviate
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At 18:00:43 on Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Alan Pemberton (Email Removed) wrote in : I am intrigued by the expression 'fair does'. I have only ever heard it pronounced 'fair dooze', which doesn't make ... presume it must have been the
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molly mockford
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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
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It depends on context.
boys- plural of boy
boy's - possessive of one boy
boys' - possessive of more than one boy
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You're in the right place!
It's not a regional thing. The pronunciation of the pluralizing
"s" is standard throughout the English-speaking world. The sound
of the "s", as you point out, can be a true "s" sound or a "z"
sound. And the only
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