How To Use Apostrophe In A Sentence
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Abbreviations with periods take ‘s when pluralized, which is probably because they look more awkward without apostrophes:
Preposterous Apostrophes II: Pluralization « Motivated Grammar
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For the record, it's also not correct to use apostrophes to pluralize decades.
Apostrophe Castastrophe
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Listing 11 shows an example of the escape sequences for a string that uses a single quote as an apostrophe.
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And unlike the elegies the sonnets are predominantly poems of invocation, apostrophe and direct address, he writes.
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No diacritic marks are normally used for native English words, unless the apostrophe and the diaeresis sign are counted as such.
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The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
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We all know that in English you form the possessive by adding an apostrophe.
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Let us note, first of all, that hyperbole and apostrophe are the forms of language not only most agreeable to it but also most necessary.
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If you've ever despaired over the misuses and misunderstandings, and just plain apathy around punctuation these days (errant apostrophes et al.) then this book will delight you.
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No diacritic marks are normally used for native English words, unless the apostrophe and the diaeresis sign are counted as such.
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For, as noted above, Tasso's is the first vernacular poem to mold Musaeus in the Ovidian heroic manner: apostrophe, ethopoeia and digressive mythopoeia abound.
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Further, the use of apostrophe in the form of direct addresses to the saints creates the impression of direct communication.
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Google ignores most punctuation, except apostrophes, hyphens and quote marks.
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Using an apostrophe to show plurals of numbers, letters, and figures is optional.
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Hatfield is uncertain as to whether it is an asbo or an ASBO, and whether or not its plural should have an apostrophe.
2 posts from January 2006
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The playwrights' experimental use of English (including the absence of capital letters, apostrophes, punctuation, etc.) is one way in which they resist oppression.
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My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs.
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The only diacritical marks here employed are the acute accent for stressed syllables and the apostrophe between two vowels to indicate the glottic closure or interruption of sound (improperly sometimes called a guttural) that prevents the two from coalescing.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
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I was trying to find out the rule about using apostrophes with acronyms or abbreviations.
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My advice, then, is this - if in doubt about whether to use an apostrophe to form a possessive, put it in; but if in doubt whether to use one to form a plural, leave it out.
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The apostrophe is misused extensively; more so, perhaps, than any other punctuation mark.
2007 August « Motivated Grammar
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Personally I think there is a case for omitting the apostrophe when the word which might be apostrophised describes, either on its own or as part of a compound adjective, what sort of noun it is, rather than who it belongs to.
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He, the unpublished writer and debutant amorist, is always telling her, the well-known poet and skilled boudoir operator, just exactly what is what in both art and love: 'O enfant, enfant, que tu es jeune encore!' is a characteristic apostrophe to a woman eleven years his senior.
Unlikely Friendship
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And unlike the elegies the sonnets are predominantly poems of invocation, apostrophe and direct address, he writes.
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For what it's worth, the offending sign uses an apostrophe to suggest the possessive of a singular noun instead of the plural intention.
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Out of respect for the opinions of others, I try to use apostrophes and commas correctly, but I'm less interested in the details of punctuation than in nearly any other topic I can think of.
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Still others prefer a middle option that keeps the apostrophe for omission and elision but drops it for plurality and possession.
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To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
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The alphabet was created with not only the familiar lettering of English but also with periods, underlines on letters, and apostrophes to distinguish particular sounds.
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The omissive apostrophe signals a missing letter in contracted forms of words or phrases associated with spoken language and informal writing,
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Little accents, little umlauts, tiny apostrophes like snowflakes sting her cheeks.
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Some singular nouns ending in an _s_ sound form the possessive by adding the apostrophe alone; as, _for appearance 'sake, for goodness' sake_.
Practical Grammar and Composition
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Opening with an apostrophe to the Queen, the poet wastes no time in presenting her with the image of Mother France being captured, stripped, and beaten by her own children.
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Log in to Reply jadechimera (UID#1821) on September 8th, 2009 at 4: 33 pm lack of possessive apostrophe is also fail …
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To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
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The use of an apostrophe here indicates a contraction of ‘it is’ or ‘it has,’ which would make little sense in the context of this banner.
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Pitches are specified by the letters A-G and a-g, optionally followed by an apostrophe or a comma.
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But the evidence shows that possessive apostrophes have been dropping like flies for years.
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The dress says "Fuck off I don't sell E's" (I'll tell her when I see her that Es is not a possessive and does not require an apostrophe, but I was off duty at the time).
Archive 2007-04-01
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And while I plan to keep handling apostrophes in accordance with the principles I was shown as a child, I am confident that they will either disappear or be reduced to little baubles of orthographic bling.
Is This the Future of Punctuation
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I refer particularly to the practice, which perhaps originated in cheesy Gothic romances but is most firmly established in bad fantasy, of taking familiar or (God help us) transiently fashionable names, changing a couple of letters, sticking in an apostrophe or two, and passing them off as something wild and exotic.
Quakers in Spain
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In summary, both with and without an apostrophe are okay, but it seems without the apostrophe is preferred.
Compounding an Apostrophe Problem « Motivated Grammar
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I'm expecting Jason to rupture a blood vessel over the missing apostrophe there.
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The Romantic plays increase the interrogations, apostrophes, abrupt interruptions, exclamations and leaders that were so evident in sentimental comedy.
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The concept of the possessive apostrophe appears to have evaded his fine mind.
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The apostrophe is no picnic in a last name either.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Apostrophe: Most Vexing Punctuation Mark?
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She plunged into her apostrophe with most self-sacrificing vigor at the beginning of the scene, and was prodigal in the use of her voice in its early moments; but when the culmination of its passion was reached, in what would be called the stretto of the piece in the old nomenclature, she could not respond to its increased demands.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
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Gradually the apostrophe was adopted as a genitive marker too.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wrote the following elsewhere and am reposting it by request (edited only for apostrophes).
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This is a good point at which to explain possessive plurals, as we have already added an “s”, we can now simply add an apostrophe; “the scrotes’ lawyer” (the lawyer for several scrotes).
Cross & Rude « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The Romantic plays increase the interrogations, apostrophes, abrupt interruptions, exclamations and leaders that were so evident in sentimental comedy.
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Plural nouns ending in _s_ form the possessive by adding only the apostrophe ( '); as, _persons, persons'; writers, writers'_.
Practical Grammar and Composition
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‘Whenever your ready, Mr. Glendenning,’ writes Lisa Napoles in Chicago, who'd be better served learning how to use an apostrophe than trying to get smart and lairy with me.
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An apostrophe is missing from “childrens”, and there is a strong case for making “menu” plural, but these lapses are so frequent in signs as to be mundane; it is the appearance of “Al” that makes it irresistible.
À la carte, à la, Al
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The column was replete with properly positioned apostrophes, including this multi-apostrophized sentence: "And his books did contain valuable news: of the Wolfowitz axis 'early push to take on Iraq, of the president's messianic view of himself as God's chosen warrior, of the Powell-Rumsfeld conflicts that led to the war's catastrophic execution.
Arianna Huffington: Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve: The Apostrophe Crisis
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No diacritic marks are normally used for native English words, unless the apostrophe and the diaeresis sign are counted as such.
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Well, I confess they are rather of a general nature at present -- belonging to humanity rather than the individual, as you would say -- consisting chiefly in washing, dressing, feeding, and apostrophe, varied with lullabying.
The Seaboard Parish Volume 1
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But even users of low-end databases can benefit from using placeholders because they ensure strings will be quoted correctly, even if they contain quotation marks or apostrophes.
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The use of an apostrophe here indicates a contraction of ‘it is’ or ‘it has,’ which would make little sense in the context of this banner.
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The Romantic plays increase the interrogations, apostrophes, abrupt interruptions, exclamations and leaders that were so evident in sentimental comedy.
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There's an unconfirmed rumor floating that as a sophomore he placed an apostrophe before the last letter of a word that ended in ‘s.’
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The meaning of a word is never unclear because an apostrophe has been misused, a fact that ought to be self evident since spoken language seems to get along just fine even though it has never evolved a verbal cue to indicate an apostrophe.
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I guess that being French, the incredibly sophisticated and capricious ways the apostrophe is used in my language has given me full confidence that I would be forgiven whatever I would do in another language.
Apostrophes in business names and place names
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To create an actual apostrophe, put two single quote marks side-by-side ('') to produce one quote mark in your output.
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I've got a round yellow face and when I laugh my eyes squinch up like little apostrophes.
Turnstyle: Talking Sh*t about Sh*t My Students Write
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My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs.
Arianna Huffington: Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve: The Apostrophe Crisis
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Now I'm a broad-minded fellow, but one sickening perversion we must not tolerate is the insertion of an apostrophe into the possessive 'its'.
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For single quotes or apostrophes leave out the Shift key.
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An m or n might be represented by a macron above a preceding vowel (poet for poetam, the accusative form of Latin poeta, poet) Omitted letters might be indicated by a suspension sign: the APOSTROPHE in M'ton, short for Merton.
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A flush overspread the face of De Warenne at this apostrophe; and forcing a smile, "This strict notion of right," said he, "is very well in declamation, but how would it crop the wings of conquerors, and shorten the warrior's arm, did they measure by this rule!
The Scottish Chiefs
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What constitutes apostrophe misuse is less clear-cut than you might suppose after visiting name-and-shame-type websites.
Apostrophes in business names and place names
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Included in the discard was the apostrophe in Martha's Vineyard.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 2 No 1
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* Jarry called it 'pataphysics, but I'm dropping his apostrophe here cause pataphysics is poncy enough in its own right without making it more so.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
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In fact, using its with an apostrophe in its possessive sense sits uncomfortably within the orbit of ‘applied excellence’.
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What is not acceptible is the autotype function of inserting a left quotation mark for an initial apostrophe.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Commas and Periods — Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them?
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Bad spellings, misplaced commas and apostrophes may be acceptable in text messages.
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However, because he didn't know how to use the possessive apostrophe, it became known simply as ‘French toast’.
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But the evidence shows that possessive apostrophes have been dropping like flies for years.
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What may sound like 'of' is the weak form of háve and so this or apostrophes should be written instead: woùld have, shoùld've, cān't have, mîght've etc. - * óv óf goôf cf. plural âgeing cf. sing sínging -- j - singe síngeing. *âking âcheing mâking snooker, drama cûeing = line cf. singe síngeing - j -- sing sínging thíng often mispronounced 'Beizhing':
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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By writing in epideictic's distinctively biographical but general terms, she can catch up in her apostrophes a Byron, a Hume,
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_
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Then the penny drops: the apostrophe has gone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ultimately it is of no consequence whether one writes Asbos or asbo’s or ASBOs so long as the result is comprehensible, and the apostrophe in asbo’s can be justified (see above) whereas the one in the plural potato’s cannot (this is known as the greengrocer’s apostrophe).
Those apostrophes
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They spend up to 14 years at school and emerge unable to put an apostrophe in the right place.
Times, Sunday Times
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Google ignores most punctuation, except apostrophes, hyphens and quote marks.
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Unfortunately, when Isabella got her paper back, the errant apostrophe had been allowed to go uncorrected.
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Out of respect for the opinions of others, I try to use apostrophes and commas correctly, but I'm less interested in the details of punctuation than in nearly any other topic I can think of.
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But even users of low-end databases can benefit from using placeholders because they ensure strings will be quoted correctly, even if they contain quotation marks or apostrophes.
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He seems unable to mate subject and verb number, use apostrophes or adverbs rationally, or spot abject incoherence in his own writing.
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Third, the apostrophes are curlicues of the sort produced by word processors on personal computers, not the straight vertical hashmarks typical of typewriters.
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But usage inclines to the adding of the apostrophe and _s_ (_'s_) even if the singular noun does end in an _s_ sound; as, _Charles's book, Frances's dress, the mistress's dress_.
Practical Grammar and Composition
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The possessive apostrophe disappeared in place names such as ‘Coopers Creek’ decades ago.
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The whole plot of the Ciris is in fact unravelled by means of a series of allusions and suggestions, exclamations and soliloquies, parentheses and aposiopeses, interrogations and apostrophes.
Vergil
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When the possessor is single we indicate possession by using an apostrophe followed by the letter ‘s’ - ‘The man's coat’.
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At the beginning of the play, his agitated emotional state is reflected in his language: self-apostrophe, anacolutha etc.
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It is also just about possible, but only at the margins of plausibility, that the apostrophe inserted into Finnegans Wake is a deliberate mistake.
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‘The preface, by Truss, includes a misplaced apostrophe and two misused semicolons: one that separates unpunctuated items in a list and one that sets off a dependent clause.’
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You (and Iain Dale) miss the truly shocking thing on the leaflet, namely the aberrant apostrophe after Simon Hughes 'name.
The Man in the White Suit
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As much as it pains me to admit it, there may not be an important moral argument for using an apostrophe rather than a tick mark.
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Which, not inappropriately, is almost the same as saying "Fuck me," except there's no apostrophe, and the "m" and the "e" are transposed.
The Girl Made of Words and Only Words
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If there is pathos in this, there is bathos in his apostrophe to the millipede, beginning "Poor sowbug!" and eulogizing the healing virtues of that odious little beast; of which he tells us to take "half a pound, putt 'em alive into a quart or two of wine," with saffron and other drugs, and take two ounces twice a day.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Sed dum h鎐 tuis auribus � me occinuntur, utinam gemitus meos altissimos, qui sub hac ad te Apostrophe latent, Serenis sim� Regi�
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Gradually the apostrophe was adopted as a genitive marker too.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab, there is one case when it's permissable to use an apostrophe to pluralize something.
Archive 2009-01-04
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I firstly must congratulate the author for managing to use an apostrophe of possession correctly, because I don't think I could have got past the first page for worrying about it if she hadn't.
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To make the word possessive, you add an apostrophe and an "s" (rope's).
Arianna Huffington: Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve: The Apostrophe Crisis
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Answer these questions, using the words in parentheses. Put the apostrophe in the right place.
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My fellow citizens is an apostrophe, a formal address to an audience, whose distance has been shortened by the insertion of the ad hominem term fellow—that is, an ingratiating suggestion to his audience that they start out on his side.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
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To stress apostrophe, personification, prosopopoeia, and hyperbole is to join the theorists who through the ages have emphasized what distinguishes the lyric from other speech acts, what makes it the most literary of forms.
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In the early days of search engines, one could not search using special characters such as hyphens, commas, apostrophes, etc.
Stupid grammar rules I: Email vs. e-mail « Motivated Grammar
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We began by having a heated discussion on the use of apostrophes and whether the contractive use and the possessive use can be combined.
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This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands.
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And if the heath no longer belongs to the king at all, does it actually require a possessive apostrophe?
Times, Sunday Times
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But this famous apostrophe closes on a truer note with six lines of unsurpassed satire (454) -- mortalia nulli sunt curata deo. cladis tamen huius habemus vindictam, quantam terris dare numina fas est: bella pares superis facient civilia divos; fulminibus manes radiisque ornabit et astris, inque deum templis iurabit Roma per umbras.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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So give the next apostrophe misuser you encounter a break; they just might be the next John L. Magee.
Senatorial abuse and apostrophe misuse « Motivated Grammar
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Most any prescriptivist you meet will have at the ready a set of examples of what is known as the greengrocer’s apostrophe: ‘s used to form a plural when just s is called for.
Preposterous Apostrophes II: Pluralization « Motivated Grammar
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Can we roll back the tide of misplaced apostrophes and commas?
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The terms parenthesis, apostrophe, ellipsis, and appositive, which traditionally were rhetorical terms, have been relegated to discussions of punctuation.
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Purists and pedants alike regularly blench when they see the things even supposedly careful writers do with the apostrophe.
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What better trope for the undertaking than the apostrophe?
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1 By contrast, and to anticipate something closer to the turn of Agamben's thought perhaps, the generalized apostrophe "Beware of the dog" — as speech act rather than common noun in clausal context — absents the animal's presence
Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian'
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I shall forgive them the missing apostrophe.
Times, Sunday Times
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This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands.
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Use an apostrophe to indicate a missing letter or contracted word.
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It is not to be supposed from this apostrophe that when I fell at once to love my master's wife I saw in her more than my lamp and my saint, the gracious presence which should "imparadise," in Dante's phrase, my mind.
The Fool Errant
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This book's a success, it's true, even though it's about commas, apostrophes, colons, dashes and other marks.
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There is, however, a range of diacritical usage in or related to English, including two everyday marks with diacritical properties: the dot and the apostrophe.
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This book's a success, it's true, even though it's about commas, apostrophes, colons, dashes and other marks.
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Every misplaced apostrophe will be moved to its proper position.
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Sed dum hæc tuis auribus à me occinuntur, utinam gemitus meos altissimos, qui sub hac ad te Apostrophe latent, Serenis simæ Regiæ
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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Lyric's raw phonemic matter precedes and equips every strophe as well as the odd apostrophe.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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Still others prefer a middle option that keeps the apostrophe for omission and elision but drops it for plurality and possession.
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(I would also comment that I have NEVER seen anyone use an apostrophe to pluralize denominations of bills.)
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
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The attached letter informs the offending parties of their apparent error, and goes on to explain the correct use of the apostrophe with the help of several examples.
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The apostrophe is used when you abbreviate the decade as the '90s (the apostrophe indicates the missing numerals).
On Obama's agenda next week: Golf
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I assume that I have that correct, as it is many grocers who have apostrophes and therefore the apostrophe goes after the s which indicates the plural.
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A nameless person after my own heart had crossed out the extraneous apostrophe and written a comment berating the person for not knowing how to use the English language.
