Alan Titmarsh- gardening

Apostrophe

What a load of subject changers and nitpickers you are!
 
Letting off steam: we can be as subversive as we like -kinda

Digger

You are absolutely correct. We do like to call a spade a spade here

Marion :hat
 
Apostrophe

QUOTE: "There is no apostrophe after its."

I thought there might be an apostrophe, as it's a "possessive".

-"Technically, Kerry and its' Ring are in the British Isles"-

So is there no possessive apostrophe?
 
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it's
always means
it is

Also:
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two cats
one cat's dinner
two cats' dinners
 
Re: .

So is there no possessive apostrophe?

There is no apostrophe in the possessive "Its" for the same reason there is no apostrophe in "hers".
 
Apostrophe

Apologies that this have gone from a gardening to a punctuation thread; the joys of AAM!

"' it's always mean it is "

Yep, understood.


1) one cat's dinner
2) two cats' dinners

Understood the second one. So why is there an apostrophe before the 's', and not after? Is it not possessive also?
 
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So why is there an apostrophe before the 's', and not after? Is it not possessive also?

The second one is a plural possessive, and the first one is singular possessive.
 
Apostrophe

Oh right, thanks for that!

I didn't know the apostrophe was placed before the 's' with a singular possessive.
 
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When I was at school, I used to the put the apostrophie directly above the s.
 
Re: Apostrophe

"' it's always mean it is "

er ... not quite correct.

Sometimes it means it has.

As in ... it's been such a long day!

Marion :hat
 
British Isles

Getting somewhat back to the original topic I was in Manchester yesterday, in the taxi on the way to the airport the driver asked me which terminal I wanted, as I wasn't sure he asked me where I was going. When I replied Dublin he assured me it was terminal 3 I needed, I discovered afterwards that this is the terminal for domestic flights only, so it's not just Alan that thinks we're in the UK.