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Originally Posted by Old School
Oh for goodness sake, you are right, this is so screwed up. Damn keyboard. Don't quite know what you mean by the apostrophe but this is bad. Between my keyboard and horrible grammar, I don't stand a chance. I should just give up but I'm too stupid to do that.
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I declared a truce in another thread, but since you stated you didn't understand my apostrophe comment, I'll explain - not in a mean spirited fashion, but just for clarification, OK?
There is a difference between plural and possessive when it comes to using apostrophes. If you notice, I just used a plural (apostrophes) without using an apostrophe. That's because it's plural, not possessive or a contraction, like the two words, "That's" and "it's" are in this sentence.
In general, you use apostrophes when the word ending in "s" is possessive (i.e.: "Bob's" wiener) or is a contraction (i.e.: "it's" really big, meaning it is really big) but not when the word is just plural, such as in "wieners".
When a word naturally ends in "s" and you want to make it possessive, you put the apostrophe after the "s", which is really kind of weird.
I hope all that is correct, since I don't use a disclaimer in my signature.
Although part of my job in marketing is to write copy, I haven't been to an English class since I graduated college back before dirt was invented.