Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:03:34 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apostrophe Usage Message-ID: <20021216210334.GA2196@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <i9k7i9hhjr.7i9@localhost.localdomain> References: <20021215213600.GA6049@submonkey.net> <20021215214245.GC6049@submonkey.net> <i9k7i9hhjr.7i9@localhost.localdomain>
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> writes: > > > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:36:00PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > I can never remember this. > > > > > > In the next sentence, does that apostrophe belong there or not ? > > > > > > Include an abstract of the book's contents here. > > > > My brain turned on (thanks to a swift slap from Eric). Don't worry. > > I worry that you asked the question wrongly. Does the "'s" belong? Ah yes, perhaps. It wasn't so much that sentence in particular, as much as the fact that I had totally forgotten how apostrophes work. > Mushy language, English. Indeed. ;) Ceri -- Your last breath awaits! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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