Grammar question

I before E except after C


Weird!

Unless pronounced like a as in neighbor and weigh

That's neighboUr

Haven't you seen modern texting? Their are no rules anymore you can write whole paragraphs without any vowels. Whole sentences only require 3 or 4 letters. Nobody cares that it's wrong or whether anyone even understands them.

I before E except after C. . .what a foreign concept.

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Ginny

I love this thread!

Thank you, thank you, Mr. Sinclair! (My sixth grade grammar teacher who made sense of it all!)

Ya'll have my head hurting!

It is easy, really. Just think of what an apostrophe is there for. It has only 2 purposes.

(a) it indicates a possessive (eg. Mary's hat, a team's success, children's toys, five days' work)

or

(b) it indicates something missing (an abbreviation): eg. who's that? (who is that); who's at the door? (who is at the door); the person who's at the door (the person who is at the door); I can't (I can not); don't! (do not!); wouldn't it be nice? (would it not be nice?); that's nice (that is nice).

In the case of 'who', there's a special word to indicate the possessive - whose. As in 'whose hat is that?'; the person whose cat had kittens. 'Whose' does not always apply to people. eg. 'the company whose business is to....'. We can say or write 'the company which does....', but we can't say or write 'the company which's business is....' - so we use 'whose' instead.

Over time, some apostrophes have gone missing, so we get words like 'good-bye', originally 'god be with ye'.

NOTE: an apostrophe should NEVER be used to indicate a plural. Not even when writing "in the 1980s". We can however say, or write "The 1980's version of...." - this shows possession, in a grammatical sense.

The Little, Brown Handbook - now that brings back memories. The copy of that and Kate Turabian were the two go-to books back in shcool. Still have them on my desk.

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Yeah, they say that grammar don't matter, but forget her cigarettes just one time when you run to the store and she'll give you the what-for 'til the sun goes down.