Punctuation?
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- HelloWorld0
MrT you can e-mail this person http://www.getitwriteonline.com/…
i do it all the time she is one of the people who wrote the chicago style guide anyway might be a good bookmark
- _salisae_0
eats, shoots and leaves
great book on punctuation originally brought to my attention by jaline of nt
- kelpie0
I find him worrying enough in 2D ;)
have a good weekend one and all.
- IRNlun60
wait... it's ok for the 3 of them...
I think it's a.
- paraselene0
kuz, i would think you'd know better than to fuck with me on this one.
besides, baskerville is that kind of a guy. i might be insane, but he's definitely right.
- kelpie0
a
- skt0
Aye do one kelpie.
*waves at kelpie.
- kelpie0
mibbe
- determinedmoth0
According to MSOutlook, it's a).
IRNlun6
(Jan 13 06, 07:57)You might as well not bother at all...
- determinedmoth0
stupid people.
it's a)
the experience does not belong to the 40 years. It is 40 years worth of experience.
KuzIII
(Jan 13 06, 09:08)Stay out of this, pants boy.
- normal0
i would say a, it's non-possessive in the singular and the plural therefore no apostrophe.
- rasko40
I would say a aswell, I see no reason for a possesive.
but I wouldn't want to argue with paraselene, she's a bit of a nazi eh?
- paraselene0
it is b because "four years' time" or "a weeks' pay" is using the time period as a posessive and thereby and adjective. four years' worth of time.
get me?
- paraselene0
stupid people.
it's a)
the experience does not belong to the 40 years. It is 40 years worth of experience.
KuzIII
(Jan 13 06, 09:08)MONGER it is 40 years worth of experience if you write worth of!
without it, it's 40 years' experience.
- the-saint0
It's not B. It's A
- paraselene0
rnh!
perhaps you shouldn't pay me any mind. i can't even type today.
a week's pay!
thereby an adjective!
but the posessive is there.
- determinedmoth0
Little Timmy is gonna cry if you all carry on like this...
- mr_snuggles0
my world has been shattered...
- kelpie0
who cares?
fucking swots.
- Baskerville0
definitive answer from Bartleby:
http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/…
group possessive.
You form the possessive for noun phrases by adding an ’s or an apostrophe at the end of the phrase: Jim and Nancy’s house, the Department of Chemistry’s new requirements, a three months’ journey. This construction gets cumbersome when the noun phrase is long, in which case you should probably use a prepositional phrase instead. Thus instead of saying the house that overlooks the bay’s property line, you should say the property line of the house that overlooks the bay.