Hi Aaron,
Well, as a CS student aspiring for gooder writing skills - I'm very
interested. Could you give us/me more information on this crash course
(when/where)?
Thanks either way,
-Peter
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Peter Thiessen
E-mail: quelance@yorku.ca
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Aaron Kilpatrick wrote:
>I recently had the opportunity to attend a fantastic crash course in grammar
>(provided by McLuhan & Davies if anyone is looking for interesting workshops to
>take).
>Anyway, we discussed apostrophes and the standard convention is to eliminate
>the additional s when the pronoun ends with an s.
>
>Lucas' and Lucas's are both correct but the former is the North American
>standard and the latter is the UK standard.
>(Luca's implies the person's name is Luca).
>
>So everyone is right!
>
>
>Ceausu@yorku.ca on December 7, 2004 at 11:15 PM -0500 wrote:
>
>
>>I just want to post a friendly reminder as to the correct way of forming the
>>possessive of a person's name: Lucas is ONE person, so the possessive
>>is "Lucas's" -- as in "Lucas's arguments" -- not "Lucas' arguments" which
>>implies that there is more than one "Luca" and that they all have arguments.
>>
>>Take care,
>>Andreea.
>>
>>
>
>
>Aaron Kilpatrick
>
>Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
>The Business School - Lakeshore H215
>Tel (416) 675-6622 ext. 3246
>Fax (416) 252-7573
>aaron.kilpatrick@humber.ca
>
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