Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Apostrophe Usage Made Simple

Apostrophe Usage Made Simple


Copyright 2005, Michael LaRocca





According to one of my previous articles, whenever a Southerner


says "Y'all watch this," get out of the way because those are


probably the last words he will ever say.





Well, I'm a Southerner. I used to live in the southeastern


United States, but I moved to the southeast of China. And, I'm


about to say the magic words:





Y'all watch this.





The word is "week." If I want to talk about more than one week,


like what I wrote a few weeks ago, I'll use weeks. No apostrophe.


If I want to talk about something belonging to a week, such as


"last week's newslett View the rest of this article


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