- 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
- 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?
- 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
- apostrophe - Johnsons or Johnsons - English Language Usage Stack . . .
If the phrase is intended as a signature, then the possessive does not apply; it's a simple plural - the members of the Johnson family are simply "The Johnsons" If, on the other hand, you are referring to their house, you have (at least) two choices: Possessive: the Johnsons' house (the house belonging to the Johnsons) Adjectival: the Johnson house (this would be more common if the house were
- Thousand Dollars Worth or Thousand Dollars Worth. Is this a . . .
This is very similar to the "Two Weeks Notice" problem featured by Lynne Truss, the apostrophe campaigner and author of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves It should definitely be "Thousand Dollars' Worth", by the way
- Where should the apostrophe go on a possessive abbreviation?
When expanding an abbreviation in parentheses, sometimes the thing that was abbreviate was used in a possessive context Consider the following example: If the Giant Ostrich Bomb's (GOB) fuse is
- apostrophe - Marss or Mars? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It all started when I saw people, for example, saying Mars' atmosphere, according to my knowledge, the only time you have an apostrophe without an "s" is when said word is plural, so in this case it would be Mars's or not Mars'
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