English The Easy Way

Guidelines for checking for apostrophes when proofreading and editing.

Apostrophes -

1. Print out a hard copy of the document.
2. Check each word that ends in "s", to see if an apostrophe is needed or not.
3. Check each word that has an apostrophe, and make sure that it is needed.
4. Check to see if the apostrophes are in the right place. Note: When using an apostrophe with plural nouns for possessions the "'s" is added on to the end of the word.

Examples:

• boy's - boys'
• cat's - cats'
• book's - books'

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Who is the greater fool, the fool or the fool who follows him.

• Obi-Wan Kenobi to Han Solo, Star Wars.

 

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Vocabulary Word:

Etymology

Said by Weekley to be first recorded in Gladstone's "Church and State", in reference to a scheme directed against the Church of England. From establishment in the sense of the ecclesiastical system established by law; the Church of England.

• establish

  to set up, put in place, or institute (originally from the Latin stāre, to stand)

• dis- + establish

  ending the established status of a body, in particular a church, given such status by law, such as the Church of England

• disestablish + -ment

  the separation of church and state (specifically in this context it is the political movement of the 1860s in Britain)

• anti- + disestablishment

  opposition to disestablishment

• antidisestablishment + -arian

  an advocate of opposition to disestablishment (alternatively, but less likely and quite similar in meaning, "opposed to disestablishmentarians", depending on what "anti-" is taken to belong to)

• antidisestablishmentarian + -ism

  the movement or ideology of advocates of opposition to disestablishment; the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment