Notes on the English language.
Apostrophes
Using an apostrophe '
together with the letter s
indicates posession.
A singular noun will use the apostrophe before the s
, whereas it comes after in the plural version:
Susan owns a hat. It is Susan's hat.
The family Scott owns this house. It's the Scotts' house.
Nouns that are always plural use the apostrophe before the s
:
These children's scores are the highest in the nation.
Possessive pronouns do not have an apostrophe:
It's just the dog eating its bone.
dictionary
- Antagonism: opposing actions or a struggle against an opposition.
- Anachronism: a practice or person out of chronological place or order.
- Amelioration: To improve a situation.
- Patronization: To support but also to act superior.
- Efficacy: The likelihood or potency to produce a desired effect.
- Efficiency: The ratio of speed and quality to produce an effect.
- Complacency: A feeling of self-satisfaction coupled with the unawareness of danger.
- Tutology: An expression that is always true in every possible interpretation. E.g. Today it rains or it doesn't.
- Catechism: A body of fundamental principles or beliefs, a manual giving basic instructions on a subject.
- Hubris: Overestimation of one's capabilities.
- Entropy: A meassure of the disorder in a closed system.
- Ephemeral: Lasting only for a short time.
- Lucid Dream: A dream that can be influenced.
- Hedonism: Pursuit of pleasure to the senses.
- Anarchism: A political theory which aims to create a society whithin which individuals freely co-operate together as equals.
- Libertarian: one who believes in freedom of action and thought; one who believes in free will.
- Socialism: a social system in which the producers possess both political power and the means of producing and distributing goods.
- Grass Roots Movement: social initiatives that emerges out of self-organised, local-level groupings
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