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Green Queen's Grammar Lesson of the day:
Plurals. Adding an 's' to the end of a word in English can be taken to mean many things. For example, if you would like to indicate that you are using a possessive, you might use an apostrophe followed by an 's', as in "The cat's paws." Note how there is NO apostrophe before the 's' that has been added to the word 'paw.' That's because in that instance, I was trying to indicate a PLURAL.
APOSTROPHE = POSSESSIVE
NO APOSTROPHE = PLURAL
Except, of course, for ITS, which has NO APOSTROPHE in its possessive form. IT'S is still a contraction of IT IS.
Thankyou for your attention. Here, have some Moseley.
Green Queen
Plurals. Adding an 's' to the end of a word in English can be taken to mean many things. For example, if you would like to indicate that you are using a possessive, you might use an apostrophe followed by an 's', as in "The cat's paws." Note how there is NO apostrophe before the 's' that has been added to the word 'paw.' That's because in that instance, I was trying to indicate a PLURAL.
APOSTROPHE = POSSESSIVE
NO APOSTROPHE = PLURAL
Except, of course, for ITS, which has NO APOSTROPHE in its possessive form. IT'S is still a contraction of IT IS.
Thankyou for your attention. Here, have some Moseley.
Green Queen
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