Pump Is Pumping » apostrophe http://www.pumpispumping.com Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:57:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How To Use An Apostrophe http://www.pumpispumping.com/2009/11/how-to-use-an-apostrophe/ http://www.pumpispumping.com/2009/11/how-to-use-an-apostrophe/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:37:16 +0000 Pump Is Pumping http://pumpispumping.com/?p=214 How to use an apostrophe

Here's to all you kids out there that can't do it!

http://apostrophe.me/

Our schooling system suck’s. I think kid’s are actually being taught that any word that ends in an “S” should also have an apostrophe. If you have read this sentence and don’t see any punctuation problem’s, then please note my fast food preference’s, as my bet is you’ll be serving me that crap for a long time to come.

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Tip's jar.

I've got a tip for you. Learn to spell.

http://www.apostropheabuse.com/

This site touches on a personal beef of mine: the continued over-use of the apostrophe. It seems that it is now grammatically acceptable to make words plural by adding an apostrophe + “s” instead of the old fashioned way of learning English.

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