Okay. I attend a small, private liberal arts college. Some of my classmates and fellow humaninies majors still can't use apostrophes correctly. It comes up on group writing assignments, posters and ...

At the point at which I gave an example of a parenthetic expression in last week's column, two possessive nouns were used without apostrophes. These were, 'Johns ', instead of 'John's' and 'neighbours ...

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Apostrophes are the curly floating commas in sentences that usually indicate possession or a contraction. There are a few set phrases and holidays, however, that also use apostrophes. In fact, ...

These are dark times for grammar lovers. The Apostrophe Protection Society is giving up. Retired British journalist John Richards, who founded the punctuation preservation group in 2001, has decided ...

Let’s face it, grammar is more important for some people than for others. An ambulance driver probably has more important things to worry about than whether to hyphenate adverbs ending in “ly.” (FYI: ...

A man who led the war on improper use of apostrophes now admits defeat, saying his grammar vigilante campaign has been brought to an end by a culture of carelessness. So what now? The battle is over, ...

Re “Some People Can Get Very Possessive About Apostrophe’s,” Commentary, Dec. 16: For years I have railed and groused about this problem of using apostrophes to indicate plural nouns, but it has only ...