Ugh! I just looked up this cool park that lets you ride trains for free on Sundays. It said "Ride free on Sunday's." Lately I am seeing so many cases of improper use of 's! I am NOT an expert on grammar but my 6th grade teacher, Mr. Gardner, taught us how to use 's vs s! THANK YOU, Mr. Gardner with a loud voice who let us watch "Space Balls" and "The Outsiders" (after we read the book. I don't know why we got to watch "Space Balls!)
here's a quick recap on the proper use of " 's."
*'s can be used to show possession:
It was the boy's dog. I liked Jan's dress.
*It can be used as a contraction to replace "is"
The restaurant's closed. (The restaurant is closed.) It's raining outside! (It is raining outside!)
IT IS NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER USED TO SHOW "MORE THAN ONE" (plural)!!! JUST PLAIN OLD 's' is used in that case.
We are closed on Sundays. The kids are running.
*when you want to show that something belongs to a plural, you put the ' after the s:
"It is the boys' bathroom."
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me,34 exH,34 S,16 months S:3/31/09-left for OW started DBing 10/09 d final: sometime 10/10 current: http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2022856&page=1 met in 2004
I am depressed again...I know this feeling. I remember it well. Blech.
Lately I feel like I need to be divorced before I can start dating again. I do want a fella. But I don't want to ask stbxh about the divorce. Am stuck.
I will have fun soon. I will! I have to. Am just feeling kind of..depressed and not into being perky and taking the energy to hang out with new people. etc.
me,34 exH,34 S,16 months S:3/31/09-left for OW started DBing 10/09 d final: sometime 10/10 current: http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2022856&page=1 met in 2004
it is "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!" its (possession) as in "The storm was rearing its ugly head!"
me,34 exH,34 S,16 months S:3/31/09-left for OW started DBing 10/09 d final: sometime 10/10 current: http://www.divorcebusting.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2022856&page=1 met in 2004
Sorry to hear about your "s" infatuation. I always be a try'n to a git it right with the ah-pos-tra-fee. However, is thar ev'r a time be'n whar it be a pro pee ought to use "aint" or "reckon" in a sentence?
I am not dating anyone besides my tape measure, circular saw and hammer right now. I'm busy on one of those projects at home - framing and putting siding on the lower floor of the playhouse so as to make another storage area.
Give me a hint to her match.com user name and maybe I will look the irish lass up with no paper trail leading back to you. But I will first have to battle it out with the Virtual Handsome Wildcat fan.
I am depressed again...I know this feeling. I remember it well. Blech.
Lately I feel like I need to be divorced before I can start dating again. I do want a fella. But I don't want to ask stbxh about the divorce. Am stuck.
I will have fun soon. I will! I have to. Am just feeling kind of..depressed and not into being perky and taking the energy to hang out with new people. etc.
I understand and I am in the same place...It stinks because I thought I was finally over that hump, but here i am again, but it doesn't seem as low this time. Still stinks!
Me29 S3 H left 4/1/09 I file 8/2/10 Divorce final 5/17/11 1st http://www.tinyurl.com/25lhu52 2nd http://www.tinyurl.com/2c35ueg 3rd http://www.tinyurl.com/322yk89
On the guys dating younger women thing. Yup it's crazy. In the past 3 years my 49 yo almost beau has dated 3 (!) 28-year-old women (!!) . He claims that they pursued him. He spent time with them (a few months each) but didn't plan for it to go anywhere.
Now he says that he "wasted his time" with them because he never saw them as LTR material and he wants to be in a LTR. He doesn't act like he feels that great about those relationships. He got tired of being with women who are in a totally different life stage than him (they didn't get parenthood, didn't have busy lives like he does, not emotionally mature, etc.).
In his defense, he lives in a small community where it could be tricky to meet women of his age...he would know their exes, etc.
Hope your mood improves. hugs
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me: 42 | STBXH: 41 | T: 18 | M: 10 | separation: Jan 3, 2010 | they deserve better: S7 & D4 current thread: http://tinyurl.com/3y8sxcp .: first breathe, then heal, then start LIVING :.
