“He has a year’s experience”–the experience of a year. This is a possessive form, and the apostrophe is required. “He has 14 years’ experience”–the experience of 14 years. Again, it is a possessive form. Here is a comparison with which you may agree: “This is Mary’s car...
Here’s what to say at midnight (and for the first couple weeks of January): Happy New Year! You also say “New Year” with no possessive apostrophe-S when you’re talking about the year as a whole. “New Year...
tense (past, present)时态(现在时/过去时) Apostrophe省略号, comma逗号; Year 3 词汇 用前缀组成名词,比如super-、anti-,auto-; 学会根据名词以元音/辅音开头,使用冠词a/an。比如a rock、an open box; 常见词汇的word families词族,了解单词如何在形式和意思上相关关联,比如说solve, solution, solver,dissolve...
Here, you’re using the possessive apostrophe to refer to a specific day that “belongs” to the holiday. The apostrophe-s shows that relationship. For example: New Year’s Eve (December 31) New Year’s Day (January 1) But this form of the phrase can also refer to anything else that...
1. Children's Day: It's a common noun possessive case, so we need to use an apostrophe after "Children". 2. Teachers' Day: It's also a common noun possessive case, indicating the day belonging to teachers, so we use "Teachers'"反馈...
This is when “Sarkozy’s restaurant” Le Fouquet’s was ransacked. (A quintessentially French place… yet they use a possessive apostrophe?) I remember I got there early – it was already a war zone. This is becausebefore the demonstration could even start, riot police used tear gas ...
Apostrophe省略号, comma逗号; Year 3 词汇 用前缀组成名词,比如super-、anti-,auto-; 学会根据名词以元音/辅音开头,使用冠词a/an。比如a rock、an open box; 常见词汇的word families词族,了解单词如何在形式和意思上相关关联,比如说solve, solution, solver,dissolve, insoluble; ...
To say goodbye to 2016 we have put together a comprehensive pop quiz based on the year’s GrammarBook.com grammar posts. The quiz comprises twenty-three sentences that may—or may not—need fixing plus two multiple-choice questions. Think you can fix the