Public and unpublished materials bluebook citation for legal materials. Read on to discover all the apostrophe rules youll ever need to know. For example, the associated press ap stylebook is a guide specific for news media and journalists while the chicago manual of style cms is used by many book publishers and writers. Apostrophes can be confusing, even for native english speakers. For your case of a possessive with an abbreviation, you should write lccs vision. The blue book of grammar and punctuation hyphens in compound words and prefixes. The blue book of grammar and punctuation jane straus. Brackets 34 parentheses 34 brackets 35 apostrophes 36 hyphens. Apostrophes punctuation rules blue book of grammar.
Most english nouns become plural simply by adding an s or es, and you cant just tack on an apostrophe for the heck of it. Apostrophes quiz 2 the blue book of grammar and punctuation. The blue book of grammar and punctuation leans towards usage rules in cms along with other authoritative texts and does not attempt to conform to the ap stylebook, which differs significantly in some aspects. To show possession with a singular noun, add an apostrophe plus the letter s. Plurals, possessives, and apostrophes janes grammar nugget. This userfriendly resource includes simple explanations of grammar, punctuation, and usage. The blue book of grammar and punctuation is a concise, entertaining workbook and guide to english grammar, punctuation, and usage. A contraction is a shortened form of a word or group of words that omits certain letters or sounds. The best grammar and punctuation books five books expert. See the entire contents of the blue book of grammar and. This post addresses only the fairly rare use of apostrophes with plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations. The apostrophe or character is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the latin alphabet and some other alphabets. How youre still using an apostrophe wrong readers digest. Editions of the blue book of grammar and punctuation.
English rules the blue book of grammar and punctuation. Apostrophes quiz 1 from the blue book of grammar and punctuation. Apostrophe rules can be broken into four main categories. For each of the following, choose the correct sentence. Grammar rules the blue book of grammar and punctuation. An easyto use guide with clear rules, realworld examples, and reproducible quizzes 11th edition a revised and an updated new edition of the bestselling over 200,000 copies sold workbook and grammar guide. Pdf the blue book of grammar and punctuation dragos.
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