- Apostrophe vs. Single Quote - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
An apostrophe is typically interchangeable with a single-close-quote, but it can be different within a more specialized font face One could be forgiven for using a neutral single quote in a pinch (an abhorrent anachronism of mechanical typewriters)
- apostrophe - Is it mens or mens? And whats the rule? - English . . .
While you're in school you can spell it men's (also women's, children's, oxen's, sheep's, deer's) with just plain old Apostrophe-S You can't tell the singular from the plural possessive in speech, so there's no reason to do it in writing, either So after you get out you can just omit the apostrophe like we do in speaking and write mens room the way it's pronounced Most native speakers don't
- Apostrophe s or ss - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Closed 5 years ago In this sentence should I use Apostrophe as s's or s'? I am always confused with what exactly the rule behind s' and s's The sentence is: Hours later Fadnavis's resignation, the the NCP-Congress leaders combined met Governor and staked claim to form the Government Fadnavis is the name of the Chief Minister (for your
- English notation for hour, minutes and seconds
I'm more used to "01:05:56", for example How do you represent the hour, minutes, and seconds using the apostrophe and quotes punctuations? Which is for the hour, which is for minutes, and which is for seconds? Is it the common way to write duration of time elapsed? Do they have a special pronunciation?
- Plurals of acronyms, letters, numbers — use an apostrophe or not?
The general rule is that you should not use an apostrophe to form the plurals of nouns, abbreviations, or dates made up of numbers: just add -s (or -es, if the noun in question forms its plural with - es)
- apostrophe - Its unconventional, but is Ts Cs technically . . .
It looks a bit weird and isn't the commonly used term, but is it not correct? The apostrophe would be marking the shortening of "terms" to "t" and "conditions" to "c", of course
- If a noun is followed by brackets, where should the apostrophe be . . .
If a noun is followed by brackets, where should the apostrophe be placed to show possession? Ask Question Asked 7 years, 1 month ago Modified 2 years, 4 months ago
- pronouns - Why doesnt its have an apostrophe? - English Language . . .
The apostrophe came to be omitted, perhaps because it's already was established as a contraction of it is, or by general habit of omitting apostrophes in personal pronouns (hers, yours, theirs, etc ) Can anyone back up either of these arguments? The possessive one's still has the apostrophe, despite these
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