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- punctuation - Apostrophe vs. Single Quote - English Language Usage . . .
An apostrophe is typically interchangeable with a single-close-quote, but it can be different within a more specialized font face One could be forgiven for using a neutral single quote in a pinch (an abhorrent anachronism of mechanical typewriters)
- apostrophe - Is it mens or mens? And whats the rule? - English . . .
While you're in school you can spell it men's (also women's, children's, oxen's, sheep's, deer's) with just plain old Apostrophe-S You can't tell the singular from the plural possessive in speech, so there's no reason to do it in writing, either
- English notation for hour, minutes and seconds
Note that a prime ′ is not a straight-apostrophe ' or a printer's apostrophe ’, although straight-apostrophes are a reasonable approximation and printer's apostrophes do occur as well Share Improve this answer
- Apostrophe s or ss - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In this sentence should I use Apostrophe as s's or s'? I am always confused with what exactly the rule behind s' and s's The sentence is: Hours later Fadnavis's resignation, the the NCP-Congress leaders combined met Governor and staked claim to form the Government Fadnavis is the name of the Chief Minister (for your understanding)
- Apostrophe `s` and adjective - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Yes, you can use an adjective after a possessive noun The item that belongs to the noun with the "apostrophe s" needn't be the very next word For example, I could say that: My day was worse than Alexander's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
- grammatical number - Is an apostrophe with a decade (e. g. the 1920’s . . .
The apostrophe is not solely used to indicate ownership( similar relationship, as with day's work) or missing letters There are some who use do's (as in works do's) as a pure plural form, some institutions call themselves dogs homes or writers guilds while others prefer to incorporate the apostrophe And when it gets to place names like St
- Plurals of acronyms, letters, numbers — use an apostrophe or not?
There are one or two cases in which it is acceptable to use an apostrophe to form a plural, purely for the sake of clarity: you can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single letters: I've dotted the i's and crossed the t's Find all the p's in appear you can use an apostrophe to show the plurals of single numbers: Find all the number 7’s
- apostrophe - Its unconventional, but is Ts Cs technically . . .
Whether one uses apostrophes with single-letter capital abbreviations is something different style guides differ on If you aren't writing to a style-guide then I'd note that to not use the apostrophe is generally the more modern style, and being consistent one way or the other is a very good idea
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