Plural possessives are usually the plural word followed by an apostrophe.The girls’ books are on the bottom shelf; The dogs’ barking is driving me crazy If the plural doesn’t end with ans, the possessive is made by adding‘s:The children’s toys are all over the house. For singular ...
For words that end in vowel sounds, we pronounce the s like a /z/. Emma thank you, teacher. 14/15.. i can speak /s//iz/ but i can’t do with /z/…i’m trying!! baoultra uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, thanks allot cos i can not pronounce the words very well before this ...
I take issue with the comment under Rule 2 regarding apostrophes that “Although names ending in s or an s sound are not required to have the second s added in possessive form, it is preferred.” It is preferred in some countries; it most certainly is not in others, particularly in the...
We’ve learned that arguing with people about whether something (usually “irregardless“) is a “real word” is a Sisyphean exercise in futility, and lexicographers get enough of that at work. But that doesn’t help you, the person being hollered at on Twitter that “mines” isn’t a...
It always comes with the echoes of “fate.” Lethal is, by origin, ‘deadly’; it comes from Latin letalis, with an intrusive h that chance and confusion ordained should be there – it’s a misconjecture of an origin in Ancient Greek λήθη lḗthē,‘oblivion, forgetfulness’. ...
If the compound noun has a hyphen or hyphens, the -s usually goes at the end of the noun, such as in secretaries-general, passers-by and fathers-in-law. To make the possessive form, simply add an apostrophe -s to the end...
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There’s a good reason why we struggle with when to useyou’re. This word violates all our expectations. Normally an apostrophe is used to show that someone possesses something, as in “Sue’syo-yo.” But if you want to write “youryo-yo,” you need to use the wordyourwithoutan apos...
Given a word over Δ, two occurrences of the coupled letters a and a′ are matching if they are erased by the same cancellation rule application. Notice that in a Dyck word the two letters of a matching pair are separated by an even or null number of letters. Chomsky-Schützenberger ...
Too Long; Didn't ReadWhen we speak, we make our meaning clear by the expression that we put into our words and sentences. Some sentences we say all in one breath and with not much change in emphasis from one word to the next. We may be pretty sure that such a sent...