Comments on: Handsome Women and Beautiful Men https://iwilldare.com/2002/04/handsome-women-and-beautiful-men/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:46:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Shane https://iwilldare.com/2002/04/handsome-women-and-beautiful-men/#comment-3836 Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:46:20 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=1668#comment-3836 Now, if you have lots of books each of a different colour, if it “the books’ colour” or “the books’ colours”?

]]> By: Bill Walsh https://iwilldare.com/2002/04/handsome-women-and-beautiful-men/#comment-3835 Thu, 02 May 2002 01:46:47 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=1668#comment-3835 Just to clarify, you’d never do “parents’s” (use just the apostrophe for possessives of plurals ending in s) but you might do Reynolds’s or Connors’s instead of Reynolds’ or Connors’ for such singular possessives if you’re of a more formal bent than the average newspaper.

(Sorry for the interruption. I wrote “Lapsing Into a Comma,” and I was just vanity surfing. Thanks for the mention!)

]]> By: tyson https://iwilldare.com/2002/04/handsome-women-and-beautiful-men/#comment-3834 Sat, 06 Apr 2002 16:08:45 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=1668#comment-3834 yeah, joots’ column was incredible. I’ve linked to it on my LJ too and told everyone to go read it.

]]> By: Salamanader https://iwilldare.com/2002/04/handsome-women-and-beautiful-men/#comment-3833 Sat, 06 Apr 2002 04:09:57 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=1668#comment-3833 Grammer rules change with time. We are in an apostrophe transition. Though he/she above/below is right in saying that it is preferable to always follow an apostrophe with an s, both are acceptable in publication.
I’ll go see if he/she has any of those nerd pills left now.

]]> By: heather https://iwilldare.com/2002/04/handsome-women-and-beautiful-men/#comment-3832 Fri, 05 Apr 2002 14:17:17 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=1668#comment-3832 “parents’s”. sounds like gollum, to me.

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