RE: [Rosegarden-devel] release status

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

Great software and English lessons to boot! Damn this is a good forum! ;-)

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Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:02 AM
To: Guillaume Laurent
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Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-devel] release status


Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> Oh, thanks. I thought you'd use a simple " ' " as long as the name
> ended with an "s". Goes way back to my first english classes.

Nah, your teacher was propagating a common mistake.  The only time
you use "'" on its own at the end is when you're making a possessive
of a plural group that ends in s.  Plurals that don't end in s, and
singular nouns that do, get the usual "'s".

For example, "the teachers' papers" are papers belonging to a
particular group of teachers, and "teachers' papers" are a general
class of papers that are owned by teachers, but papers that belong
to one teacher are teacher's, papers belonging to Chris or James
are Chris's or James's, and papers that belong to sheep are sheep's.


Chris



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