Sunday
Dec092007
Grammar lesson
Sunday, December 9, 2007 at 06:51AM
In Wednesday's class, our professor had to give a little lesson on English grammar. She actually had to teach people, in preparation for writing our final papers, how to properly use apostrophes. As in, it's not 1970's, it's 1970s. Not possessive! Same thing with NPOs (nonprofit organizations) instead of NPO's. Unless you're talking about something belonging to one NPO, get your finger off that apostrophe key.
Also, someone asked why it's "nonprofit" without a dash and "for-profit" with a dash. When the professor hesitated, I got to give a mini-lesson on prefixes.
Yes, this is graduate school.
Also, someone asked why it's "nonprofit" without a dash and "for-profit" with a dash. When the professor hesitated, I got to give a mini-lesson on prefixes.
Yes, this is graduate school.
Reader Comments (6)
Ahhh, I remember this lesson in college (!). "It is" is it's and when it is its, it is its and not it's.
Unless you're talking about 1970's number one song... Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water.
I HATE it when people screw up there/their/they're and your/you're.
Poor apostrophe use makes me insane also. At Filene's basement (famous discount store in Boston) all the signs for various departments have quotation marks. "Dresses", "Outerwear" etc.. It makes me crazy.
Hahahahaha!
It kills me! I'm having the same problem with my team members in my grad school class. They sent me their work and I felt like a grade school teacher marking their misspellings, grammatical errors and the raping of the comma. Oy!
Good god. Someone actually asked that nonprofit/for-profit question? They should be booted in the vagina.