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A Brief Note on Punctuation
« on: June 05, 2010, 07:44:12 PM »
An apostrophe, when used in the pronoun + suffix form, always indicates a contraction. He's/He is, it's/it is, they're/they are.

When used in the noun/pronoun + s form, it indicates possession.  Bob's, her's.

If there is a conflict, the contraction always wins out and the possessive form loses the apostrophe.  A contraction should never lack an apostrophe, it is "in place of the letters removed".

Of course, there are an incredible amount of exceptions in English ("yours" being one of them), but it's good to understand this.  Especially as a native English speaker.

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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2010, 08:45:06 PM »
that is cool rob....but what does this have to do with 40k?

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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2010, 09:26:33 PM »
that is cool rob....but what does this have to do with 40k?

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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2010, 02:00:52 AM »
I prefer the Ginger Method of punctuation. Profanity.
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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2010, 09:48:30 AM »
This is the most important rules related thread.  Without a basic grasp of the language, there can be no rule book.

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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2010, 05:26:30 PM »
This is the most important rules related thread.

It's?

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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2010, 10:21:33 PM »
This is the most important rules related thread.

It's?

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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2010, 09:26:46 PM »
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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2010, 10:05:21 AM »
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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #10 on: June 08, 2010, 07:47:43 PM »

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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2010, 02:57:59 PM »
This is the most important rules related thread.

It's?

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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2010, 07:02:18 PM »
"This One Is Rurouni... Once Again, This One Will Drift."

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Re: A Brief Note on Punctuation
« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2010, 06:22:49 PM »
Not to ruin the good time, but "It's?" is not a grammatically correct sentence. The shortest grammatically correct sentence in the English language is simply "I am." In order for Bob to be correct, technically, he would have had to write "It is?"