It’s not always that simple…
Comment on Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval
BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 5 weeks agoIn English, apostrophes are only used for possession and to indicate missing letters (usually vowels), as in contractions.
My example showed apostrophes incorrectly being used for non-possessive plural nouns. I used a proper noun (“Johnson”) and a common one (“pizza”) to better illustrate my point.
vatlark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Nah, it’s pretty simple. Pronouns don’t use apostrophes for possession; they only use them for contractions like “it’s”.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Thanks.
Wanted to make sure I was getting what you were puttin’ down.
Yea, the rules are pretty clear, at least I always thought so.
Kind of telling that so many people can’t be bothered to understand it.