1) Math teachers... When he/she or she/he (however you prefer) assigns a certain amount of problems for homework, they say, "I want you to do numbers 15-23 for homework tonight." That is no problem. On the contrary, they write on the board "do #'s 15-23." WHAT ON EARTH? Is there any form of possession shown in there? How does one spell "#'s" in context of the above statement written on the board? Last time I checked...n...u...m...b...e...r...s. There is NO possession in there whatsoever. So why use that darn apostrophe? Besides, look at it! The apostrophe knows that it's out of place, even between those quotation marks! Moving on...
2) Okay, here is another instance wherein the apostrophe is incorrectly used. Seeing the poor apostrophe used when discussing dates, kills me. An example of this is in a sentence such as the following. "The 60's were a time of change." Alright. Simply, this says "Of the sixties were a time of change."No, no, no, repeated no. The apostrophe goes behind the 6 in this case. So that the statement will look like, "The '60s were a time of change." NOT 60's or 1960's...
3) So, my third and final experience of poor apostrophe use. This happened in a science class of mine. The teacher made a powerpoint on environmental issues. The teacher got to the point of why dams should be conserved. The teacher says to the class, "Now we'll talk about the conservation of dams." The screen, however, revealed the heinous grammar mistake. Prepare yourself. At the click of a button the screen revealed, "The conservation of damn's." Holy crap! I nearly died. Not only a swear was on the screen but a double possessive noun! That mistake was inconceivable to me. Some good that came out of it was at least the apostrophe was before the "s".
Hopefully I'm not the only one with the issue concerning apostrophes.
They're great! Use them well!
1 comment:
Dude, what kind of buffoons are running your educational center? Sounds like you chose the wrong school to go to.
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