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Tip #453: To form the plural of numbers...

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Tip #453: To form the plural of numbers and capital letters used as nouns, including abbreviations without periods, just add "s." To avoid misreading some capital letters, however, you may need to add the apostrophe.

For example:

During the 1980s

His SATs

The 3 Rs

All perfect 10s

Several local YMCAs

Straight A's

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This week’s quiz:

Change the incorrect word:

  1. I should have taken Larry's advise.

  2. Our lawyers adviced us not to sign the contract.

  3. What was the affect on the new process?

  4. We will try to affect a change in policy.

Quote of the week:

"Indifference is the essence of inhumanity." 

(George Bernard Shaw, Anglo-Irish dramatist)

Answers to this week's exercise:

  1. I should have taken Larry's advice. (recommendation)

  2. Our lawyers advised us not to sign the contract. (to counsel)

  3. What was the effect on the new process? (result)

  4. We will try to effect a change in policy. (to bring about)

    5.

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss The Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction , by William Knowlton Zinsser  The Gregg Reference Manual, by William A. Sabin 
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, White, E. B. White  How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing, by Robert Gunning, Richard A. Kallan (Contributor) 

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