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Topic: People who try to pluralize words with apostrophes

Anonymous A started this discussion 4 years ago #103,030

I genuinely believe that they should serve jail terms, and if they do not change, the death penalty. I am not even kidding.

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 1 hour later[^] [v] #1,163,389

Apostrophe's*

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,390

@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Death sentence for you.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 6 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,421

We need re-education camps for this shit.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 8 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,423

Perturbed. lol.

@1,163,389 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)

I think it is.

Dead !Pool..v42s joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 4 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,449

What about a plural possessive?

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 2 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,475

@previous (Dead !Pool..v42s)
That's a possessive, not a plural. I am talking about things like, "Carrot's for sale."

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 14 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,480

@previous (A)
Technically correct when it's used as a contraction:

"Carrot [the animal or slave] is for sale."

Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 4 years ago, 11 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,485

@1,163,475 (A)
@previous (F)
What if the word that is being used as the possessive just ends in an S, if someone has the last name of Jones, would it be "Jones' horse Carrot is for sale" or "Jones's horse Carrot is for sale" ?

Dead !Pool..v42s double-posted this 4 years ago, 1 minute later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,486

@1,163,475 (A)
Or if it's like horses' or horses's if it's the pasture belonging to horses?

Anonymous F replied with this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,487

@1,163,485 (Dead !Pool..v42s)
The former.

Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 4 years ago, 37 seconds later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,489

@previous (F)
Yeah I know it's the farmer that's the possessive, duh

Anonymous F replied with this 4 years ago, 3 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,490

@previous (Dead !Pool..v42s)
Sentences begin with a capital letter. Questions end with question marks. Acronyms are typed in upper-case. These are very basic rules that anyone who has ever spent one hour studying English must know. Always use this basic knowledge here!

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 4 years ago, 20 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,493

@1,163,485 (Dead !Pool..v42s)
Both are acceptable.

Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 4 years ago, 17 seconds later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,494

@1,163,486 (Dead !Pool..v42s)
Horses' pasture.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 57 seconds later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,495

Ni🅱️🅱️a's

Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 4 years ago, 4 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,497

@1,163,490 (F)
So if both of those were questions, with the proper punctuation designating then as questions, would the former still be correct? Or then would both be acceptable after the aforementioned correction of punctuation?

Anonymous F replied with this 4 years ago, 18 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,503

@previous (Dead !Pool..v42s)
> So if both of those were questions, with the proper punctuation designating then as questions, would the former still be correct?
> designating then as questions
> then

Only the former sentence would be correct. There isn't a situation where the other one would ever be correct.

Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 4 years ago, 1 hour later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,524

@previous (F)
God it's the best when I'm having a conversation on the internet, and because I use my phone I look like an idiot because I don't review my posts before I post them.

(Edited 57 seconds later.)

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 2 hours later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,163,538

I do it constantlys'

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 5 months later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #1,193,847

@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
You eat carrots?

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #1,193,872

@1,163,538 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
oh's no, feets' dont's fail's me now's

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #1,193,873

@1,193,847 (I)
Yes's

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC double-posted this 3 years ago, 19 seconds later, 5 months after the original post[^] [v] #1,193,874

@1,193,872 (J)
Hahah
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