Forgive me, guys - for the interuption in the thread..
Darren -
sooooo do you want the Te- Amo wood cigar box?? I'm getting the feeling
your email server is stashing my direct emails to you in your spam
folder.. really, I'd like to give it to yo for postage only but
also would like to know if it won't work.
the rest of you --
things are too crazy right now for me to comment on all the peso's
and get into chat - crazy not in a bad way - so not to worry.
ann
On 7/1/2014 12:21, Darren Addy wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Mark Roberts
<[email protected]> wrote:
Darren Addy wrote:
You also cleverly avoided the
incorrect use of apostrophe on a name ending in "s" (which should
read: Adams' and not Adams's).
"Adams’s" is the correct usage according to both the APA and MLA
stylebooks.
For a possessive? Must I weep also for our teachers and stylebook writers?
According to:
http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/grammar/Apostro3.html
"Your question on the possessive, on the other hand, is open to
editorial judgment.
You need some background. There are a lot of editorial style manuals
around, and they sometimes give conflicting advice. The conflicts are
not really whimsical; different style manuals are written to generate
prose that is intended for different kinds of audiences. Let's divide
them into two camps.
One kind of stylebook is intended for popular publications on short
deadlines. A typical example is the Associated Press Stylebook and
Libel Manual. The AP Stylebook tells you to form the singular
possessive of a name ending in "s" by simply adding an apostrophe.
Another kind of stylebook is intended for longer, more scholarly
publications with more forgiving deadlines. A typical example is The
Chicago Manual of Style. Chicago tells you to form the singular
possessive of a name ending in "s" by adding an apostrophe and an "s."
Chicago grants exceptions only to Jesus, Moses, and Greeks whose names
end in "eez."
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SHEESH.
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