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- meaning - What is the difference between S and S? - English Language . . .
The double meaning of 's leads to one of the most common mistakes in written English: confusing its, which is the possessive form of it, and it's, which is a contraction of it is
- Possessive s VS is s - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I'm a teacher and every time that it comes to teach possessive 's VS is 's, students get confused and can't distinguish them For example: Rita's brother's name's John They can't understand whi
- When a word ends in s or x, do you add s or just an
29 1) Alex's house 2) Alex' house When the noun ends with the letter 's' or 'x', do I need to put 's' after an apostrophe or not? I remember I read some rules related to this in my school grammar book, but now I've forgotten it
- contractions - Thiss instead of this is - English Language . . .
When we use < 's > for has or is, this represents a contraction in the pronunciation Instead of saying has or is as a separate word with its own vowel, we reduce the word to just s This s gets attached to the previous word The result is that we lose a syllable in the pronunciation: Ben is here Ben's here In the first sentence Ben is represents two syllables But in the second sentence
- Whats it? vs. What is it? in terms of usage - English Language . . .
A more common place to encounter it is in longer phrases, like "What's it to you" or "What's it all about " These work because the emphasis has been shifted to the later words
- Which one is the correct word, people or peoples?
Which word is correct and what is the difference between these words? People People's I heard somebody say that quot;people's does not work in a sentence People means a group of humans Why wou
- The USA versus USA - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Putorti's concerns mirror a conversation bubbling up across the USA Well, Houston is the only city in the USA that I know of where you can choose whether you want to go out to eat in a Southern Nigerian-style restaurant or a Northern Nigerian-style restaurant Between those sentences, some are like the following ones, though
- Whats the correct usage of something of something and somethings . . .
Both A's B and the B of A are grammatical and idiomatic and convey the same meaning In speech and informal writing, A's B is far more frequent In formal writing, the B of A is less rare because formal writing often involves relatively complex sentences For example, Last year, the X corporation bought the French assets of Y corporation, which was then still tied up in bankruptcy
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