Sentences with phrase «using apostrophes»

Two common errors are capitalizing common nouns in the middle of a sentence and using apostrophes to form plural words.

By Chris Saylor Last week, I talked about formatting dialogue within dialogue, as part of an attempt to address a request about using apostrophes in fiction.

It's about properly using apostrophes, especially in dialogue.

Using Apostrophes Improve Your English Work Packs teach the child good English.

The areas covered in the book are: using apostrophes, plurals, the present and past tense, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, punctuation, spelling, homophones, homonyms, commonly confusing words, suffixes, sentence writing and opposites.

Oh, and dearie, I'd have a little more tolerance for your views if you knew how to use an apostrophe and bothered to consider subject - verb agreement.

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

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

We're particularly impressed with the BabyCenter parents who used apostrophes to come up with unusual, clever, and musical - sounding names.

This is a step - by - step explanation of how to use apostrophes.

Slides test children's ability to use apostrophes for singular and plural nouns focussing on common plurals which do not end in s such as «men» and «women».

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

Neither Authors Guild nor Authors Alliance use apostrophes (on their websites at least).

When I contacted the author to point this out, they replied in such a way which confirmed they did not know how to use the apostrophe.

You can use apostrophes in two ways.

Apostrophe errors: Use apostrophes to indicate possession for nouns (Mark's home) but NOT for personal pronouns (its, your, their, etc.) and for contractions (it is = it's, they are = they're).

And just between you and me, he's extracted a promise that I will not use apostrophes in my book titles Ever Again * cough * Seer's Hope, Seer's Promise, Seer's Choice * cough * Ooops.

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.

I use apostrophes to encapsulate «explores» because in reality, you're just playing a platformer with clunky controls; jumping on thematic set - pieces (punctuation marks, famous...

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.

Use the apostrophe as a signal to show you know what you're doing when cutting and mashing.

The only time to use an apostrophe with it, is if you are shortening from «it is» and «it has».

Evidently, Stephen Wilde is a lawyer and a scientist who can't use apostrophes correctly.

The angry attorney (Crite) asserts in his motion that (opposing counsel) Bluebaum's pleadings use apostrophes so confusingly that the case can't even proceed.

If you are not sure if you should use an apostrophe or not, take the extra time to look up punctuation rules.

Not exact matches

Who knew that apostrophes were so difficult to understand and use?

Proper use of the apostrophe.

Then there are those obsessed by the use of apostrophes in signs.

In my opinion, it's easier to read a sentence without the right apostrophe instead of a sentence that used it in the incorrect place.

This has nothing to do with your post, but so happy to see the use of apostrophe in an abbreviated decade used properly.

And those words expose how attuned the person is to the importance of correct capitalization, the use of abbreviations, and the placement of apostrophes.

(Apologies for the apostrophe error I will correct this if I get time) Would be great to see how you use it, follow me on twitter: @razfromcav Enjoy

In particular: adjectives, noun phrases, sentence structure, sentence types (commands), use of commas to separate words in a list, the apostrophe for omission and the homophones their, there and they're.

These resources enable students to develop their skill in using two of the more difficult to master punctuation marks: apostrophes and inverted commas.

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.

Aimed at ESOL / ESL / EFL / EAL learners from Entry 1 - 3 this detailed PowerPoint covers every aspect of the lesson from a fun «hangman» style starter, clear objectives, listening activity with gap fill, vocab activity, apostrophes tasks, discussion questions as well as links to fun interactive online resources that learners can use to extend and further practise their listening and apostrophe skills.

Sheets have advice and examples on how to use exclamation and question marks, apostrophes and the colon accurately.

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.

The government says pupils will need to show they can punctuate sentences properly, including using colons, apostrophes and «ellipses» -LRB-...).

And finally, writer's has an apostrophe to denote possession, but you're using it incorrectly like a plural.

You might also want to learn the proper use of commas and apostrophes... but I think the copyright infringement thing is what we want to focus on here.

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.

In Italian they use compound prepositions - so: of = Del, lo = the, compounded should be DELLO but since «Arte» begins with a vocal, they leave off the last vocal on the compound preposition and put an apostrophe in it's place.

Lots of people may get lower marks if they mix up using the single apostrophe («-RRB- with using double quotation marks («-RRB-.

It's no wonder that people are confused about apostrophes, because new uses were introduced in the 1600s and again in the 1700s, and it wasn't until the mid-1800s that people even tried to set down firm rules.

Ebooks with titles or author names containing apostrophes can sometimes cause this spurious «locked» message and render the ebook unreadable on the Kobo (although you can read the ebook using Calibre on your computer).

If you could replace «its» with a noun (and an apostrophe, the little trademark of rightful ownership) use its, every time.

I can use capitalized letters and apostrophes with mine, Can't you?

To my great surprise and delight, the guide delved into the weeds of word - space geekery by recommending that writers use a «hair space» after a lowercase f and j, when those letters are followed by an apostrophe, quotation mark, parenthesis, or bracket.»