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It's acceptable to write "Bill Gates' ideology is that of a swine's", even though it should be "Bill Gates's ideology is that of a swine's" and if you're going to do it properly you'll write an "s" at the end. Lacking the "s" at the end is wrong but acceptable.
"We had dinner with the Gateses tonight, what a shame", but "we had Dinner over at the Gateses' tonight, what a shame". However, "Jesus' followers are known as his disciples".
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This will be a long post, since I'm replying to many comments at once. It seems more efficient this way.
I love reading threads like this one. It's nice to know I'm not alone in the way I feel about grammar. One of my favorite books is Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Lynne Truss. I crack up every time I read it. Here's a link (sorry I can't make the fancy ones):
I agree that using the last comma adds clarity, reducing the chance that the last two items in a series look like they are grouped.
quote:That final comma is called the serial comma.
I've heard it called the Oxford comma, too. I may have read that in "Eats, Shoots & Leaves."
quote:can we please decide to eliminate the apostrophe in all plurals that aren't possessive? I'm referring of course to CDs and DVDs.
Yes! I vote for that! No wonder I enjoy reading here so much--so many of you write the same way I do. (Well, I know I'm not as smart as many of the posters here; I refer to the grammar used.)
As for Dr. Suess' The Grinch: In ""Eats, Shoots..." she also talks about how "Two Weeks Notice" drove her crazy. I was semi-relieved when I saw that, because I was thinking it was just ME that found it annoying. And when we went to DisneyWorld awhile back, I was *appalled* to see a store with this sign:
The Writers Corner
OK, who painted that?! Shouldn't sign painters be literate? :-p
quote:Originally posted by Starr R: Here's a link (sorry I can't make the fancy ones):
Oh! Oh! I know how!
You make a clicky on "Full Reply Form". The very first clicky button is "URL". Make a clicky on "URL" and paste in your web location in the little poppy-up box. You click "OK" in the little poppy-up box and it goes away, only to be replaced with another poppy-up box. You put whatever little name you want to call you link in that little poppy-up box, and click the "OK".
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