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Tip #472:  "...names of organizations and products..."

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Tip #472: The names of many organizations and products contain words that could be considered either possessive or descriptive terms. As a rule, use an apostrophe if the term is a singular possessive noun or an irregular plural noun.

For example:

Levi's jeans
Women's Wear Daily
Reese's Pieces
Macy's

Weekly Exercise:

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This week’s quiz:

Choose the correct word:

  1. I do not want anyone (else's/elses) job.

  2. It's no (one's/ones) responsibility.

  3. I think it's (anybody's /anybodys) guess.

Quote of the week:

"Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it."

(Samuel Butler, 17th century English poet)

Answers:

  1. I do not want anyone (else's) job.

  2. It's no (one's) responsibility.

  3. I think it's (anybody's) guess.

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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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