One very common error I see is to neglect inserting an apostrophe altogether in possessive nouns, e.g. "I went to my parents house". Another one is to use the plural of a word instead of the singular possessive, e.g. "I went to my families place for dinner", or "Look how cute that babies face is!". The poor apostrophe takes quite a beating nowadays. And kids are not being taught this anymore. Most young teachers couldn't teach it anyway, because it wasn't taught to them!
Lovely voice, good graphics, however writing the plural possessive according to how you say it or if you like the looks of it is ludicrous -- a grammatically monstrous thing to say, if I may. The possessive is formed by adding ['s] regardless of the ending of the word unless it is PLURAL AND ends in S. That means: the boss's office, the bosses' offices; Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget is the Joneses' Diary; Wales's emblem, the Waleses' trip; and yes, Moses's tablet, but the play has three Moseses -- who's got all the Moseses' tablets? In fact, with all due respect, your rule lessens clarity. If someone says "that's Ron Woods car" and "that's Tiger Woods car", how do you know what the last name is? If you write [that's Ron Wood's car, and that's Tiger Woods's car], it's absolutely clear, hm? While ppl might like to do and say what they like, the rules of grammar aim for clarity and consistency. Please reconsider your instructions.
*Note:* may be don't write in the bottom because I put the meanings (what you say) because I weak in english And the word in bottom become absence when I put the meanings *Thanks*
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One very common error I see is to neglect inserting an apostrophe altogether in possessive nouns, e.g. "I went to my parents house". Another one is to use the plural of a word instead of the singular possessive, e.g. "I went to my families place for dinner", or "Look how cute that babies face is!". The poor apostrophe takes quite a beating nowadays. And kids are not being taught this anymore. Most young teachers couldn't teach it anyway, because it wasn't taught to them!
Lovely voice, good graphics, however writing the plural possessive according to how you say it or if you like the looks of it is ludicrous -- a grammatically monstrous thing to say, if I may. The possessive is formed by adding ['s] regardless of the ending of the word unless it is PLURAL AND ends in S. That means: the boss's office, the bosses' offices; Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget is the Joneses' Diary; Wales's emblem, the Waleses' trip; and yes, Moses's tablet, but the play has three Moseses -- who's got all the Moseses' tablets? In fact, with all due respect, your rule lessens clarity. If someone says "that's Ron Woods car" and "that's Tiger Woods car", how do you know what the last name is? If you write [that's Ron Wood's car, and that's Tiger Woods's car], it's absolutely clear, hm? While ppl might like to do and say what they like, the rules of grammar aim for clarity and consistency.
Please reconsider your instructions.
*Note:* may be don't write in the bottom because I put the meanings (what you say) because I weak in english
And the word in bottom become absence when I put the meanings
*Thanks*
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