Sentences with phrase «possessive apostrophes»

(did I get the plural possessive apostrophes right?)

There are lessons on possessive apostrophes for singular and plural possession, comparatives and speech layout and punctuation.

Others include missing possessive apostrophes and confusing words that have similar sounds but different spelling.

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

The View, including that self - confessed tramp Barbara Walters, was broadcasting live from Caesars — a name like Tim Hortons crying out for a possessive apostrophe — and the groupies were in place long before the 8 am start.

On a side note, when you have a plural possessive the apostrophe goes after the s, so it should be the the Lorreys» house, not the Lorrey's.

Not exact matches

There is no need for an apostrophe, as the word is not possessive.

You use apostrophes throughout the post, but crostinis should be plural, not possessive.

(A brief digression: Is the apostrophe - s in Headhunter's possessive — as in the destined vocation of a man or woman...

3 activities to help children learn to use the apostrophe correctly for singular and plural possessive nouns.

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.

You're using it in context of more than one - thousand dollars, so it's not possessive (apostrophe), it's plural.

Truss fusses about people who insist on adding apostrophes to plurals (DVD's), who use the wrong possessive for «it» (its»), and who put commas in many, many places where they don't belong.

Deciding between attributive and possessive can be tricky, but a few tips should help you decide if an apostrophe is needed.

It's a singular entity and so the possessive form requires an apostrophe followed by an «s» even though the word Walgreens already ends with an «s».

Possessive pronouns (yours, hers, ours, theirs) have NO apostrophe, e.g., Is that picnic blanket yours, ours or theirs?

The contrast between a plural and possessive or construction is basic: in the event that you need to include an apostrophe in a word like «its,» think as to whether it bodes well to peruse it as «it is» If, in this way, you have a contraction, not a plural.

Watch out for spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, incorrect contact information, typos, and misuse of apostrophes, plurals, and possessives.