The apostrophe rule

[Mike Muz]

Homework:

But if there are three bosses in one office?.. :mrgreen:

Complete:

Go to the.............. office

If there are three bosses in one office you obviously drop in a grenade and make the world a better place

 

[Mike Muz]

Re: Re:

Sounds like you need this page.
http://www.apostrophe.org.uk


Also
You use 1990s not 1990's



I think there area few exceptions, though not sure if it's a real rule when talking about your p's and q's or looking for for 3's, but really you should probably use threes?
(It's used to make it clearer with single digits)

Of course autocorrect and phone tapping means most the rules are ignored as editing is a pain in the ar'e.

Check with THM as I'm quite poor at English really.

Yes , indeed , '90s or 1990s

By 'eck

Mike

 

[The History Man]

Enough already

 

[velofrog]

Re: Re:

Not Mikes's bikes for two Mikes that have bikes ?
What if one Mike owns two bikes and the other Mike has three , but is lending the other Mike one bike ! Because the other Mikes bikes are old and fu'ked . I think :?

was killing myself laughing at this, so much so that the Mrs asked me if i was ok?!
superb!
thanks Mike!

 

[Mike Muz]

Re: Re:

Not Mikes's bikes for two Mikes that have bikes ?
What if one Mike owns two bikes and the other Mike has three , but is lending the other Mike one bike ! Because the other Mikes bikes are old and fu'ked . I think :?

was killing myself laughing at this, so much so that the Mrs asked me if i was ok?!
superb!
thanks Mike!

When you say thanks Mike , do you mean thanks and your name is Mike , or are you thanking me , calling me Mike ?
If you're a Mike too how many at your home are Mikes's bikes ? If you're not Mike , er , :? oh I don't know . I'm confused now

Mike

 

[David B]

Re: Re:

Of course autocorrect and phone tapping means most the rules are ignored as editing is a pain in the ar'e.

When you say "phone tapping", is that as in predictive text shortcuts, or the practice employed by those fine upstanding beacons of morality in the tabloid press?

David

 

[Mike Muz]

Re: Re:

Of course autocorrect and phone tapping means most the rules are ignored as editing is a pain in the ar'e.

When you say "phone tapping", is that as in predictive text shortcuts, or the practice employed by those fine upstanding beacons of morality in the tabloid press?

David

Talking of oxymorons . . . .

Did you know , I had to look that word up the other day ! :facepalm:

Mike

 

[xerxes]

Re:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM[/youtube]

 

[The History Man]

An idiot who walks around with his mouth open for fear of suffocation.

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

Mike, stop worrying about your apostrophes, and sort out your spacing!!

The punctuation, regardless of what it is (comma, exclamation mark, full stop) comes directly after the last word of a sentance, like this.

It does not have a space first; this is wrong .