| He seems unable to mate subject and verb number, use apostrophes or adverbs rationally, or spot abject incoherence in his own writing. |
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| We began by having a heated discussion on the use of apostrophes and whether the contractive use and the possessive use can be combined. |
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| This includes quotes, apostrophes, ellipses, em and en dashes, multiplication symbols, and ampersands. |
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| But the evidence shows that possessive apostrophes have been dropping like flies for years. |
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| Google ignores most punctuation, except apostrophes, hyphens and quote marks. |
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| Bad spellings, misplaced commas and apostrophes may be acceptable in text messages. |
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| I was trying to find out the rule about using apostrophes with acronyms or abbreviations. |
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| Little accents, little umlauts, tiny apostrophes like snowflakes sting her cheeks. |
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| This book's a success, it's true, even though it's about commas, apostrophes, colons, dashes and other marks. |
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| After all, who cares about the appositive colon or out of control apostrophes or the 17 uses of the comma or rambling apostrophes? |
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| The alphabet was created with not only the familiar lettering of English but also with periods, underlines on letters, and apostrophes to distinguish particular sounds. |
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| Can we roll back the tide of misplaced apostrophes and commas? |
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| I assume that I have that correct, as it is many grocers who have apostrophes and therefore the apostrophe goes after the s which indicates the plural. |
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| As Prof. Gasque sees it, map makers should prize locally used apostrophes as mainstays of history. |
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| English 'single quotes' are not configurable in this way because it would cause problem with apostrophes. |
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| How private worry about hyphens or apostrophes will so often turn a person into a punctuational avenging marauder, a ruthless grammatical Genghis Khan. |
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| When you defined cells, you entered apostrophes around the name of the cell. |
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| Good sections on the placement of terminal punctuation within closing quotation marks and the use of apostrophes and commas. |
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| We were all surprised when Lynne Truss's bestseller, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, proved that people are passionate about apostrophes. |
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| Third, the apostrophes are curlicues of the sort produced by word processors on personal computers, not the straight vertical hashmarks typical of typewriters. |
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| Same story with the apostrophe: in the 18th-century authors were sprinkling apostrophes over everything. |
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| Dutch also has a range of fixed expressions that make use of the genitive articles, which can be abbreviated using apostrophes. |
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| Yet I quit counting after 50 or so unnecessary apostrophes on plural nouns in the last issue. |
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| You must also enter apostrophes when defining cells for key figures. |
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| Many writers and publishers found it advantageous to use English forms and copious apostrophes to secure a larger English readership unfamiliar with Scots. |
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| In transcribing them, I have inserted one or two apostrophes, for the poet always complained that though he could spell like sixty, he never could mind his stops. |
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| When applied in English it produces greengrocer's apostrophes. |
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