Seen on a used car for sale:
"$2'800"
Sounds like a nice price. A squiggle near the bottom of the line is called a comma; a squiggle up in the air is an apostrophe.
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In 2009 and 2010, The Writer published 20 online columns and one print article of mine. These essays covered everything from semicolons to wordiness. The full text of all 21 are here on my blog!
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- Criminal Sentence 154: Apostrophe or Comma?
- Criminal Sentence 153: Dare to Compare
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- Criminal Sentence 150: Painful Bad Grammar
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2 comments:
I teach third grade, and some of our math involved calculator skills. We were adding large numbers on our calculators and the children were writing the sums. I noticed some children were putting apostrophes where commas should go. The reason they did this is because that is how their calculators show it. It's frustrating.
Hope you don't mind I'm following you... *smiling*...
now, back to read...
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