Sentences with phrase «making apostrophes»

Microsoft Word is notorious for making apostrophes face the wrong way.

Not exact matches

You mean «must have», not «must of», and there should have been a possessive apostrophe on «persons», though — to be fair — your errors with English grammar are probably less serious than others that you are making

He recommends turning to pray even while during the sermon, «making many apostrophes to God, as Oh Lord, bless my people and teach them this point.»

I upvoted this because it made me laugh, and because she used apostrophes properly.

In Yall, you are removing the «ou» of You, so you put the apostrophe after the «Y», to make «Y» all».

It could be a problem with apostrophes or a missing article, or maybe it just doesn't make sense.

This power point is a quiz which will test students» knowledge of apostrophes, making nouns plural, finding the opposite adjective by adding prefixes and deciphering a weirdly worded paragraph.

This engaging and detailed resource pack has been designed to make the understanding and use of apostrophes and inverted commas (heaviy emphasised in the new curriculum) easily accessible, engaging and interesting for all children.

Words included are the following: always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy, call, cold, does, don't (I use a blank tile to represent the apostrophe), fast, first, five, found, gave, goes, green, its, made, many, off, or, pull, read, right, sing, sit, sleep, tell, their, these, those, upon, us, use, very, wash, which, why, wish, work, would, write, your.

Although her class makes great progress over the course of the year, taking on increasingly challenging writing tasks, Mrs. R. continues to revisit basics, such as letter names and sounds, sentence punctuation and capitalization, possessives and apostrophes, throughout the school year.

That guy specifically made a few minor spelling mistakes and one or two little grammar ticks (this is ignoring contractions since almost nobody online uses apostrophes in them), but unless you either actively write, are an English major, or just have a really good memory back from English class in school you're unlikely to even remember the rules that he broke.

The accepted rule is that you don't use an apostrophe to make a plural, but there are certain cases where it has become the go - to mark to get you out of a tricky spot, usually with a very small word ending in a vowel.

Even highly - educated people make mistakes, but two errors in apostrophes in one post is unusual for an English - speaking attorney or a Ph.D..

In the event that your resume features how you've «made the organization site and performed IT»S maintenance,» that errant apostrophe will hop out at the hiring manager — and not positively.

Again, make sure you don't replace any of the quotations or apostrophe's or the rollover effect will not work.