Wednesday, September 12, 2007

An Ode to the Apostrophes Abuse

Im saddened when people use the wrong punctuation mark's in their sentences'. I have seen an alarming amount of apostrophe's being used in the wrong place's. Likewise, some people forget to use the apostrophe altogether and put a nothing in the apostrophes place. The apostrophe has' several purpose's and plurazing a noun is not one of them. Thats the truth! It seem's too many high school's are forgetting how to teach grammar properly. Its a horrible fact that a student who pass's high school English still can not master the many beautiful function's of the apostrophes repitoire. Conjunctions', the deletion of letters, and possession are the grand use's for the apostrophe. If there is a question in your mind about whether or not to use an apostrophe, ask yourself these three question's, "Does something belong to the noun I just apostrophized?" "Is there suppos'ed to be a letter where the apostrophe lie's?" "Does the word I apostrophized contain two words' that still make sense in the sentence if I separate them?" If the answer is "no" to all these questions' then remove the apostrophe or apos'trophe's. If you have a plural noun that pos'sess's something, then add an apostrophe to the end of the word. Good punctuation bless's reader's many times' over. Too many apos'trophe's confu'ses' the readers minds'. Its a shame that peoples writing misu'se's one little mark so badly. Bles'sing's to the soul's who's pen master's it's master.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

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love, you're husband. :)

Anonymous said...

I agree that widespread contravention's of the proper use of apostrophe's has to stop. We are not alone in our quest' for puncuation excellence, you may find this website interesting.

http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/

Anonymous said...

a post trophy what what now? wat'cha be'in talk about's?

Next do CAPITAL LETTERS! The caps lock is like cruise control for cool.

-chrisanity

Anonymous said...

Haha, nice.
Yay for bob the angry flower!

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