Wednesday, January 21, 2009

When to use apostrophes

For the most part apostrophes are pretty easy for me. It is when you get into the all complicated stuff like when you are talking about "Back in the 1950's" or "the 50's" I don't know if it is supposed to be 50s or 50's. Or when you are talking about your Father-in-law's remote, or is it your Father's-in-law remote. Then if you pluralize it and say each of my Fathers-in-law's coats, or is it Fathers'-in-law coats, or Fathers-in-laws' coat. HERE shows that it is possible if you would like to put the 1950's but also you can put an apostrophe at the start to show an ommission of "19" in 1950 by putting '50. HERE has a good example of the Father-in-law question.

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