OT: How to use a *spoon* apostrophe

[seank]

I can take it no longer. Here's how it works folks, straight from the punctuation police handbook:

 

Plurals, i.e. more than one of something, get an "s" on the end with no apostrophe.

 

"I bought a bunch of Batmans today."

"Jack Kirby drew a lot of comics in the Silver Age."

"Moderns are not worth pig spit once you get them out of the store."

 

Possessives, i.e. something that belongs to something else, gets an "s" on the end WITH an apostrophe.

 

"Batman's utility belt sure is nifty."

"Jack Kirby's artwork hugely influenced Silver Age artists."

"That pig's spit is worth more than most modern comics."

 

That's the basics. Learn 'em and use 'em. There's no excuse for looking like an illiterate *spoon* on a board dedicated to a literary/artistic form.

 

 

 

 

[Reno McCoy]

+1

[Bosco685]

There's no excuse for looking like an illiterate *spoon* on a board dedicated to a literary/artistic form.

Did someone have a fun Christmas today?

[capt_comics]

 

 

or how about your........you're

[buttock]

What about a plural possessive for a word ending in S or X?

[iggy]

You're post has nothing too due with comic's!

[thehumantorch]

Don't forget contractions!!

 

If you join two words together replace the missing letter or letters with an apostrophe.

 

do not = don't

they are = they're (not there, their)

 

 

[thehumantorch]

What about a plural possessive for a word ending in S or X?

 

----s'

[iggy]

What's been bothering me lately is the use of the word "of" in place of the contraction " 've " like "would of" instead of "would have", although granted, "would've" looks a little weird.

[seank]

There's no excuse for looking like an illiterate *spoon* on a board dedicated to a literary/artistic form.

Did someone have a fun Christmas today?

 

I had a great Christmas today. Spent much of it playing Martian Fluxx with my 11-year-old nephew.

[thehumantorch]

What's been bothering me lately is the use of the word "of" in place of the contraction " 've " like "would of" instead of "would have", although granted, "would've" looks a little weird.

 

would of < would have

 

Thank gravy for the technical writing courses I took.

[capt_comics]

You have to admit we have some english professors on the boards

But we also have some people that couldn't qualify to be on a certain Jeff Foxworthy show.......

[Bosco685]

I can take it no longer.

 

I think you want the compounded form, anymore, which means the same as "any longer." But the word needs a negative construction, such as, "I can't take this anymore."

 

You should be okay with this approach, as it will avoid the double negative concerns of a sentence, such as, "I do not want nothing."

 

[Duffman_Comics]

 

Paging Flaming_Telepath, paging Flaming_Telepath to Comics General . . .

[Subliminal]

Some people seem to have an apostrophe fetish

[VintageComics]

What about a plural possessive for a word ending in S or X?

 

Exactly!

[Sal]

you can use an apostrophe and an s in those instances.

 

as in, I hope DiceX's heart surgery went well

 

or

 

Boris's breath smells like borscht.

 

you can also use just an apostrophe if you wish. both are technically correct.

 

 

but people who use an apostrophe when writing a plural are dumbasses

[Wally's Comics]

' or ’

 

 

If we are going to get our panties in a bunch about it, why not use an "apostrophe" instead

of a friggin' prime for pete sake?

 

 

 

 

[Moondog]

It's / its.

 

Nothing more abused on the boards.

 

Alot / a lot.

 

A close second.

[Beau]

"I could care less" gets a lot of play on these forums, instead of the correct "I couldn't care less". When you say "I could care less", you're insinuating that you do indeed care somewhat, since the possibility of caring less is present.