15:46 on Thu 29/Mar/07
Ok, this has been bugging me long enough. In the sentence " I drove my car to joes house. " where exactly in the word joes does the apostrophy go? Every time I see a word like that the apostrophy is before the S no matter what context they are using the word. Last I knew, the apostrophy was there to take the place of a letter. So instead of joe is, one would write Joe's. But if I wanted to use my example setence, wouldn't the apostrophy go after the S?
(20:19 on Fri 30/Mar/07)Or if Joe's name happened to be Les or any other name ending in 's' (other than pluaralization) the apostrophe would be placed at the end...
(16:12 on Mon 02/Apr/07)Ethel is right. Apostrophes are used to show possession or if two words are shortened, e.g. it is - it's, they are - they're. The car belongs to Alan - Alan's car, the car belongs to the Smiths - the Smiths' car.
(13:01 on Wed 04/Apr/07)"Mistake I used to often make"
Neve split infinitives!
"Mistake I used to make often"!!! : )
Seeing as we're talking abou grammar!