Purdue OWL: Apostrophe

Purdue OWL: Apostrophe:

"Once you've determined whether you need to make a possessive, follow these rules to create one.

add 's to the singular form of the word (even if it ends in -s):
the owner's car
James's hat (James' hat is also acceptable. For plural, proper nouns that are possessive, use an apostrophe after the 's': "The Eggleses' presentation was good." The Eggleses are a husband and wife consultant team.)
add 's to the plural forms that do not end in -s:
the children's game
the geese's honking
add ' to the end of plural nouns that end in -s:
two cats' toys
three friends' letters
the countries' laws
add 's to the end of compound words:
my brother-in-law's money"

This site was accessed to a question I needed an answer to regarding using an apostrophe in the word "its or it's" and here is the relevant passage I found in the above linked web-source:

 It's is a contraction for "it is" and its is a possessive pronoun meaning "belonging to it." It's raining out = it is raining out. A simple way to remember this rule is the fact that you don't use an apostrophe for the possessive his or hers, so don't do it with its!)Feb 22, 2013

Being that the above title is always a link to the source of the information cited and quoted; even though it's somewhat redundant, I lately having being trying to cut and paste the raw or root URL, even if I don't quite understand if the URL is top level domain, or a sub-domain.



That being said, below is the raw or root level URL for the above info, which in this case is also a hyper link:



https://owl.english.purdue.edu

Wow: This is such a useful resource, that I am including another hyperlink to the site map of the above URL:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/sitemap/



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How to Become a Columnist – National Society of Newspaper Columnists

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— If you end up going to graduate school, see if you could write a column for the university newspaper.

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public void Life(): " no shortage of offshore teams in software development. The stereotype of an Indian sweatshop of programmers and the garbage code they produce is well known throughout the industry. And I'd be lying if I said I hadn't seen that stereotype in action again and again. But I can't let that sour my perception of all offshoring in general. Particularly because my company now has an office in the Philippines for providing low-cost development work.

First of all, the Philippines is a far cry from India. The country and the people are vastly different in every way. I'm not going to compare apples and oranges, and besides that's outside the scope of these observations anyway. I was in the Philippines, not in India. So I can't speak to the latter. But hopefully what I've learned in working with the former can be applied somewhat universally."

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Create A Network « WordPress Codex

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Keyword research and recommendations
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On the other hand for those research scientists or historians out there, one could view such a thing as internet fossils. Some day some student might use these to com"

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Some You Just Abandon A Blog.

Sometimes you just abandon a blog. I suppose it just kind of happens. If you never come back, I suppose it just kind of becomes random virtual debris. It's not particularly offensive (hopefully) yet it may very well be unlikely that people will come and visit old decaying post.


On the other hand for those research scientists or historians out there, one could view such a thing as internet fossils. Some day some student might use these to complete their master's thesis on, "The early blogs before it became a way to try to make money."

This picture, in its own interesting sort of way, neither requires a link nor a caption.

Why is is somehow that in the back of my mind at this very moment, I sort of hear the voice of one of college English professors saying (in writing of course, perhaps on a hand written essay test) Mr. Sanders, I see you have finally mastered the use of the comma. 


Yet then I also hear my own voice saying, yeah now I just need to learn about capitalization, and when to use an a verses an i when spelling! 


One of the problems with the omnipresent spell checker is this, being that any misspelled word like that one, where I misspelled the word misspelled (there should be a special term for such a thing, which unfortunately happens to me quite a bit), you end up depending on such precious convient tools, such as the "spell checker" that your brain probably rests (or yes maybe even shrinks) a bit knowing that the spell checker is there to watch your back. 


As I ponder this, I see there are some even more subtle underpinnings to this issue, however I will leave off with this. It's possible the spell checker is some sort of plug-in in one of the WordPress templates I use that may be broken, disabled, or just plain old- not working. Now if this is true, it does explain how a lot of typos were missed by me, over the years. 


I truly dislike with a passion, Okay, I hate having to go back to old posts that were perhaps even written years ago, in order to repair various typos, spelling or grammatical errors. 


The reason of course being is that I have plenty of work that I should be doing right now. 

"Yeah, is that right, so why are you writing on some old BlogSpot blog that has been forgotten by time itself, when you specifically planned to take a new customer (or two) for building a brand new website?"

Ummm...ummm...Oh yeah I just picked up this new little piece of Google Ad code and was going to be placing it on this really happening blog of mine and then.... 

"Yeah, speak up, I can hardly hear you?"

" well you see the blog was not working correctly and I got this error code and then couldn't sign in to the right e-mail, because I forgot the password and then I had top use the back up e-mail, but ....I  errr... forgot the password to that too.....and ....and... then ..and then ...I hat to .. but I noticed...." 

" Stop stammering and sign off already and get to what you really have to do, and stop trying to have so much fun, when things go so wrong!"

"Oh yeah sure, your right of course, as always, what did you same was?"

" Oh common already, you know, you boss, your editor, your landlord, Uncle Sam, whatever. Now you just get back to work and quit playing around!"

" Oh yeah right, but really I was trying to do monetization and then I got distracted and tried to do a little SEO. I sorta figured that by the time I was done with the SEO, that Google might have figured out what was wrong, and I would not have to worry about sending an e-mail with the erros code to Google, because maybe they would be mad about the multiple account thing!"  

 " Stop it! You asked them about it when Google Engage called! Did you forget?"

 " No, but, hey lets just stop doing this now, no offense but it's not even funny and more."

Come back again for part II of:

"A Day In The Life Of A Full Time Blogger"-By Stephen C. Sanders

Its kind of interesting to realize that even when using a fairly simple interface, you end of finding new features that you did not about, just when you try doing something simply by pushing a button.


Stephen C. Sanders


PS: Or even more interesting to learn (or realize) that one has been using a specific or particular feature incorrectly for years, or that its equally possible that one was using the feature correctly, yet the modern way is to now use the very same feature differently. I suppose questions like this come from people like me, who were never really shown or taught how to do things but ended up learning by doing. On the job training.


...seriously, you got see this guy work, as he writes he "see's" what it would like in a google search, I mean he thinks in keywords and that why he keeps buying domains... what... the camera still rolling...oooops.
  

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Jewishusedbooks.com Site Info

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Best Grammar Checker and Proofreading Software by Grammarly

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How Publishing Really Works: Trios: Stories From Publishing's Front Line

How Publishing Really Works: Trios: Stories From Publishing's Front Line: "ublication process of specific books from the viewpoints of three of the professionals involved in the books' publication. The obvious three professionals would be the writer, the agent and the editor: but I'd particularly welcome suggestions for contributions from people who work in less obvious areas, like marketing, production, royalties, rights sales, distribution, bookselling or design.

Contributions from all genres are welcome, and from as wide a variety of publishers as possible, from great big conglomerates to the tiniest of micro-presses; I'd be happy, too, to consider stories from self-published and vanity-published authors so long as they've got something interesting to say."

How Publishing Really Works

How Publishing Really Works: "Following My New Website On Blogger
I've received a few emails over the last couple of weeks from readers who were used to following my this blog from within their own Blogger dashboards, and who now can't tell when I've posted something on my new site because it has no "Follow" widget there.

If you come into this category, and would like to make my blog updates appear in your Blogger reading list, it can be done. You just have to add my new site's address manually to your reading list: it's very easy, and will only take you a minute. Here's how you do it.

First, go to your Blogger dashboard and scroll down until you can see your own reading list. At the bottom of that section you'll see two buttons: "add" and "manage". Click on the "add" button: your screen will go pale and a dialogue box will open which is titled, "Step 1: Add Blogs To Follow"."

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