Please learn to use apostrophes

[Anonymous]

Yes, I have nothing better to do. Or as you might say on this forum, "I have extra minute's in the day, so I will use them to write some post's on use's of apostrophe's"

Apostrophes are used with CONTRACTIONS and to show POSSESSION. That's it folks (see: since the words 'That Is' were contracted to one word; Hence, I used an apostrophe. Since 'folks' was not contracted from 2 words, nor am I talking about something a Folk possesses, no apostrophe)

Does everybody get it?

[Anonymous]

This drives me crazy, too, particularly when teachers do it. I fear you are fighting a losing battle, though.

[Anonymous]

No - Can you further explain? Pl'ease.

[Anonymous]

That is a pet peeve of mine. And when people don't know the difference between "its" and "it's".

[Anonymous]

I'll never forget DH sending me an email when we were arguing about something and he wrote "your an idiot." Man, I wish I printed that out and saved it. Priceless.

[Anonymous]

What about your and you're, their, they're and there? Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That is a pet peeve of mine. And when people don't know the difference between "its" and "it's".

Ha. To this day, whenever I'm writing "it's," I say "it is" out loud. Drilled into me at school!

[Anonymous]

new Iphone user here---with big hands and fingers. My grammar, spelling and punctuation have all taken a serious hit.

[Anonymous]

Other grammar pet peeve: ALOT - it's two words not one. Should be A LOT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apostrophes are used with CONTRACTIONS and to show POSSESSION.

I have a house. How come when I talk about its roof I can't apostrophize?

What about your pwecious little POSSESSION rule then, huh?

[Anonymous]

Because the house doesn't own the roof, the roof is a part of it. Are you stupid or just faking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apostrophes are used with CONTRACTIONS and to show POSSESSION.

I have a house. How come when I talk about its roof I can't apostrophize?

What about your pwecious little POSSESSION rule then, huh?

Apostrophes are used along with common nouns or proper nouns to show possession.

common noun -- girl -- the girl's book
common noun -- car -- the car's fender
proper noun -- Mary -- mary's book
proper noun -- Honda -- the Honda's fender

apostrophes are not needed to show possession with possessive pronouns. (his, her, our, its, etc.)

girl --her book
car -- its fender

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because the house doesn't own the roof, the roof is a part of it. Are you stupid or just faking?

Actually, neither.

"Its" does indicate possession in my sentence above. As in, "Fred's leg", "Florida's panhandle", or "the saucepan's handle". Look up the grammatical meaning of possession.

So, are you also stupid, or just faking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the house doesn't own the roof, the roof is a part of it. Are you stupid or just faking?

Actually, neither.

"Its" does indicate possession in my sentence above. As in, "Fred's leg", "Florida's panhandle", or "the saucepan's handle". Look up the grammatical meaning of possession.

So, are you also stupid, or just faking?

Not one of the PPs but I assume here you understand that "its" is a special case, as explained above?

What drives me crazy is when people use quotation marks to emphasize a word or phrase.

[Anonymous]

Oh for crying out loud. I'm so tired of the grammar police on this site. Most of us are in a hurry and don't really care since it's anonymous. But it was nice of you to admit you had nothing better to do.