Well yeah, maybe, but either way it wouldn’t have the apostrophe.
OK responded to wrong reply
Yeah, of course. Possessive apostrophe. Build’s records is fine, Build’s record’s or Build’s video’s, no.
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That shit drive’s me nuts’.
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But the apostrophe also denotes missing letter(s), no? Like a contraction.
She’d = she would
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Guys I feel this is an opportunity to really ramp up the pedantry, don’t let me down
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The old grocer’s’ apostrophe debate…
Grocers
Grocer’s
Grocers’
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Grossa
I miss Grosa’s military vehicle talk
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OK, so to use video’s you’d have to say “Video’s a superior format to DVD”, as in ‘Video is a…’ That’s the contraction. This person was using the word plurally, but with an apostrophe that would only belong if it was a contraction of video is or if it was possessive. She meant videos but added an erroneous apostrophe, in an email to parents. And I don’t want this absolute animal anywhere near my daughter.
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I hate its and it’s.
The dog ate its biscuit.
It’s biscuits for the dog.
The car has its MOT next week.
Whose MOT? The car’s
Just flicked back through what I get from my school. Here’s random stuff.
I could go on and on. Emails and texts to the whole school are like this too.
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I only recently worked this one out. I must have been off sick that day or something
“Should of” has become so common now that I’m waiting for fuckers to start saying that it’s actually okay because “language evolves”.
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Should’f
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Personal who mix up genuinely and generally
The incorrect usage of ‘humbled’ where people are now saying it when being elevated by their peers at award shows or similar when they just mean grateful.
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An old colleague used to say pacific instead of specific.
Just made the rest of us laugh and sneakily side eye each other with looks of ‘why are we working with this Michael Fabricant again’
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Affect vs effect
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