Thursday, December 8, 2011

Where DOES That Apostrophe Go?

Simple: just make the apostrophe point at who the item belongs to:
This works about 99% of the time. Check out Elements of Style  (Strunk and White) Section I, part 1, page 1 for a full explanation, including the exception to the rule:  “ancient proper names”.

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