{"id":1260,"date":"2011-01-31T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T00:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/apostrophe-and-s\/"},"modified":"2011-02-01T08:02:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:02:58","slug":"apostrophe-and-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/apostrophe-and-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostrophe and S"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must see this mistake made at least once a week, but three times in a day still young has pushed me over the edge.<\/p>\n<p>The rule, very simply: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if singular, put an apostrophe <u>before<\/u> the <em>s<\/em>; <\/li>\n<li>if plural, put an apostrophe <u>after<\/u> the <em>s<\/em>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to <strong>Jackson&#8217;s home<\/strong>.&#160; This indicates that I am going to the home that belongs to a single individual named Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been invited to watch the Super Bowl at the <strong>Jacksons &#8216; home<\/strong>.&#160; From this you may correctly surmise that the home belongs to a family with the surname Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>If I send a missive entitled &#8220;<strong>Bolen&#8217;s Newsletter<\/strong>,&#8221; then it is a newsletter from either Kelli or from me, but it is not from both of us.&#160; If you are invited to come visit <strong>the Bolen&#8217;s house<\/strong>, you may correctly conclude that we have a pre-nuptial agreement that put the house in my (or her) name and excluded the other spouse from ownership.&#160; [You &#8216;ll never get such an invitation.]&#160; If tell you that I am going to visit <strong>my parent&#8217;s house<\/strong>, you will guess that either my parents are divorced or one is no longer living.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an unimportant rule, because it helps to accurately communicate meaning.&#160; You may do it incorrectly and I may figure out that you didn&#8217;t mean what you wrote (because I know that you or your parents aren&#8217;t divorced), but if you simply can&#8217;t get it right, I&#8217;d prefer that rather than putting the apostrophe in the wrong place, you do &#8216;nt use one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Use-Apostrophes\">More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must see this mistake made at least once a week, but three times in a day still young has pushed me over the edge. The rule, very simply: if singular, put an apostrophe before the s; if plural, put an apostrophe after the s. Here are some examples: I&#8217;m going to Jackson&#8217;s home.&#160; This\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/apostrophe-and-s\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}