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Re: At the risk of being labeled a grammar nazi...

Capitalization is important too. "Today i helped my uncle jack off the horse" can mean a couple of things, depending on capitalization.

However my pet peeve remains those who start with "I don't think ...." OK. Fine. Your business. But why admit it?




On 9/6/2013 10:09 PM, PaulMmn wrote:
But you do NOT need an apostrophe to say things like...

SODAS FOR SALE

"SODAS for sale" means there is more than one soda for sale.
"SODA'S for sale" means soda is for sale. I don't think
that's what they had in mind!

I've seen it as "soda's for sale" all too often! People see that
trailing "S" and assume it needs an apostrophe!


--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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