English Grammar. Downfall of the Apostrophe.

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English Grammar. Downfall of the Apostrophe.

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Please Mr Mod, fix the wording on the drop down list from the Fanzine link.

Fan's Forum to Fans' Forum as there is more than one fan.

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Perhaps one should stay clear of this one as one only got 161 out of 400 in English way back in the days well before GCSE and A levels. However, it never stopped me from expressing an opinion previously.

Fans Forum as in forum for fans rather than forum owned by fans would seem OK to me.

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The problem with saying anything about grammar is you set yourself up for a fall as everyone makes a mistake eventually.
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A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

'Well, I'm a panda', he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'
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GerryO' wrote:The problem with saying anything about grammar is you set yourself up for a fall as everyone makes a mistake eventually.
:D That's very true GerryO. I've set myself up for an almighty fall in the future.

However, if they all end up laughing at me then at least they're leaving some other poor sod alone :D
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My comment was a general one, not just about you. I've been caught out a few times especially as my spelling is bad and there's no checker on this site.
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Gerry if you use Firefox there is a useful dictionary which can be found in the add ons.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3
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Rooster wrote:Gerry if you use Firefox there is a useful dictionary which can be found in the add ons.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3
Thanks, but that's too much like hard work. I'll just continue to make mistakes and claim they are Ulster Scots.
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GerryO' wrote:My comment was a general one, not just about you. I've been caught out a few times especially as my spelling is bad and there's no checker on this site.
I have a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye cannot sea.

When eye strike a quay, right a word
I weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait aweigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two late
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely, rarely grate.

I've run this poem threw it
I'm shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
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After its downfall does the apostrophe fall into a comma?
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Wot's an apostraphe? :twisted:
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Welcome to pedants anonymous

My name's Gerry and I'm a....liar ... :shake: forgot me names not Gerry :oops:
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Cap'n Grumpy wrote:Wot's an apostraphe? :twisted:

No idea. Where did you see that? :scratch:
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