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BUT NOT IN A WORD LIKE TYPOS!!!!!!
Ah, forget it, should have kept my big mouth shut. I don't care if people make mistakes and typos, everybody does, it just set me off when you started correcting other people when your own grasp of the written language is so tenuous.
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greenjumpyone wrote:
apostrophe = possessive
end of story.
Not in my book. No contractions for you? It is a fact that in SF movies, aliens and robots do not use contractions. That's how you know they're not humans. [Edit #2: May also apply to grasshoppers 
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One use that hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread is how I use it in my sig file - unless it also counts as a contraction:
Keep-On-Learnin'
So, matovalenta, as you can see, forums.adobe.com is a good place for information about Adobe (and sometimes about camera) products, but I wouldn't recommend it for grammar lessons. Here's hoping you're either as entertained as I am or that you've figured out how to stop the email notifications 🙂
Message was edited by: Mark A. Boyd
Mark A. Boyd wrote:
greenjumpyone wrote:
apostrophe = possessive
end of story.
Not in my book. No contractions for you?
Mark, I'm sorry (oooh loookie there, a contraction! ), I should have been more specific! With the "s" on the end of the word, the apostrophe implies possessive tense and not plural. Example: apples (plural) ... .... apple's (possessive tense ... something belongs to the apple).
Yes, certainly the apostrophe applies to contractions! 
Mark, I'm sorry (oooh loookie there, a contraction!
That's understandable. Apparently grasshoppers are humans, too 
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Saskatchewanobie wrote:
Mark A. Boyd wrote:
That's putting an otherwise useless subject to good use!
Grammar is the most abused subject on earth.
Er, well, I meant the useless "help please" subject, of course. It is proving more useful than usual in this thread for some reason.
Should I go over there and read them the riot act?
I'm not the one to ask. I am quite the grammar abuser myself. Unfortunately, I seem to be regressing lately rather than recovering 
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greenjumpyone wrote:
the apostrophe implies possessive tense and not plural. Example: apples (plural) ... .... apple's (possessive tense ... something belongs to the apple).
Posessive "tense"?? !!
There's no such animal in any language I know.
tense 2 (t
ns)
n.1. Any one of the inflected forms in the conjugation of a verb that indicates the time, such as past, present, or future, as well as the continuance or completion of the action or state.2. A set of tense forms indicating a particular time: the future tense.[Middle English tens, from Old French, time, from Latin tempus.]
Nope, not "sense" either.
Case.
pos·ses·sive (p
-z
v)
adj.1. Of or relating to ownership or possession.2. Having or manifesting a desire to control or dominate another, especially in order to limit that person's relationships with others: a possessive parent.3. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a noun or pronoun case that indicates possession.n. Grammar1. The possessive case.2. A possessive form or construction.
John Joslin wrote:
I rest my case.
In that case, no rebuttal is necessary, as your case was weak enough to fall on its face.
Saskatchewanobie wrote:
Keep breathing heavily Phillip, no matter what anyone else says.
"You said Apple's on sale."
That would be the function of the conjunction apostrophe 's' which means Apple is on sale.
the first mention was here:
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