Grammar pet hate: the rogue apostrophe

[MattC]

It's BEES

BEES BEES BEES. Almost never bee's. Unless you're talking about something that belongs to a single bee.

BEES I tell you. BEES




Ahhh, that feels better.

[Yes, realise I'm a grammar snob which is why I'm venting here, where almost nobody will read it, rather than the main forum]

 

[VEG]

how are your bee's

 

[Luminos]

That's a bee'stly thing to say

 

[MattC]

My plea's for correct use of apostrophes' are clearly falling on deaf ear's.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Think you should have written:

"....I'm a grammar snob, which is why........"

Or:

"....I'm a grammar snob - which is why........"

Or:

"....I'm a grammar snob; which is why........"

Dusty.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

My plea's for correct use of apostrophes' are clearly falling on deaf ear's.

"My plea's for correct use of apostrophe's, clearly, are falling...."

Or:

"Clearly, my plea's....."

Honestly!

Dusty

 

[pargyle]

It's BEES

BEES BEES BEES. Almost never bee's. Unless you're talking about something that belongs to a single bee.

BEES I tell you. BEES

Ahhh, that feels better.

[Yes, realise I'm a grammar snob which is why I'm venting here, where almost nobody will read it, rather than the main forum]

The panda eats shoots and leaves.

The panda eats, shoots and leaves.

Incredible power in a comma ....

 

[MattC]

Commas shmommas. Who cares what's happening down there (I'm a selective grammar snob).

It's the cheeky apostrophes buzzing around above our bees that need to be shot down before they do some serious damage.

 

[For want of a better word]

He went off with his wife.


So whose wife did he go off with?
Ours is a very simple language, but only understood by a few!

Bees' knees...............Bees knees...........Bee's knees.......... all are correct in the correct context!

 

[madasafish]

Sainsbury's is an example of an apostrophe left dangling - in mid air so to speak..

 

[pargyle]

Sainsbury's is an example of an apostrophe left dangling - in mid air so to speak..

Sainsbury's what then ?

 

[domino]

So you have a punctuation peeve not a grammar one then.

 

[Luminos]

How I hate punctuation!
I can never get the wheel nuts undone.

 

[For want of a better word]

Sainsbury's is an example of an apostrophe left dangling - in mid air so to speak..

Perfecktly correct!
Owned by the Sainsbury family

 

[Skyhook]

I agree about spare apostrophes- apart from for greengrocers, where they are part of our cultural heritage.

.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

[Yes, realise I'm a grammar snob ]

And it's Grandma or to be correct - Grandmother!!

 

[psafloyd]

Sainsbury's is an example of an apostrophe left dangling - in mid air so to speak..

Not really.

 

[madasafish]

Not really.

Oh yes it is
Oh no it isn't.
..................

 

[Beauhawk]

..and just when I was feeling a bit glum with my very poorly dog having to overnight in the vet,s - this thread cheer's me up.

Cheer,s'

 

[Polyanwood]

I',m loving it too. I'm coming over all fuddy duddy. 'Should of' instead of 'should have' is the one that makes me wriggle the most.