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Old 21-11-2008, 18:31   #1
West Ender
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Greengrocers' Apostrophes

It drives me mad - what does? - an apostrophe being shoved in before the S when a word is a plural.

Take the word greengrocer, that's singular, but if there are 2 of them they are greengrocers. Greengrocer's means "belonging to the greengrocer" and if it belongs to both of them it becomes greengrocers'.

Right, so stop doing it or I'll start on about you're and your and there, they're and their.
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