A donut shop we stopped at once, in a moment of sugar cravings and temporary weakness, gave us this warning. I dun could’t resist taking a pickcher of that there sign. Them there rules for apostrophes, plurals and possessive personal pronouns are not always understooded very good.
Them donut peoples dun used the possessive personal pronoun YOUR instead of a contraction YOU’RE, which is short for YOU + ARE.
Ya’ know, it’s perty easy to make contractions. ‘Cuz we’re too lazy to say each word, contractions are like shortcuts.
Start with two words, take a few letters out, throw in a squiggle where them letters is missing, and you gotta’ new word.
Same wif ITS and IT’S. If ya wanna’ say IT IS use IT’S.
Think of the apostrophe as a little pointing finger, showing that something is possessed, or owned.
The little apostrophe is pointing to the dog, showing he owns the word after the apostrophe, in this case the tail.
This latte ain’t owning nuttin’. It don’t need a finger pointing at hisself.
It ain’t no contraction either.
It just needs to be plural, more than one, ‘cuz we luv us some lattes.
You jest be needing to add a big ol’ “s”, not that there apostrophe.
From a Craigslist ad –
Maybe they couldn’t sell the “table” because it didn’t help them wright like they thought it should. Maybe I shoulda’ bought the “table” and started a business.
A Jay Leno style grammar tutorial. Its kinda’ funny. It don’t come with latte’s.
Oh my GOODness!! I am still amazed at how many times I run across stuff like this, too! Why don't we know our grammar better than this? I love the way you are teaching it, though! HA!! It sounds just like folks around here!
Bwah ha ha! That was good! And please don't go back and read past posts because I'm sure you will find some of those mistakes. LOL!Oh and speaking of Craigslist, the other day I saw a post that said "Chest of Drorers! LOL! Nothing like sounding it out! Ha! Ha!Have a great weekend.HugsKim
Why, oh why, do people feel the need to sprinkle apostrophes where they do not belong?! I volunteered to help in the worship words ministry at my church a couple of years ago because I was sick of seeing "it's" for "its" and other illiterate mistakes. The problem is that too often the person who is good at running programs on computers is terrible at spelling.
Woo hoo! You da lady with the know-how!!
You crack me up! I'm going to link this as an example of a FAB Friday post. I've gone to once a month on the 1st Friday.FAB Friday 1st Friday's 🙂 Hope you can link up next week!
Absolutely hilarious! And maybe, just maybe, it will actually do some good.
This is exactly one reason why I DISLIKE VERY MUCH this texting business. People are acquiring all kinds of bad habits from it.Funny blog though, that was totally something my Mom wud wright. 😉
That was hilarious, Mindy! But really, does't it aggravate you just a litte? Such a great sense of humor! Thank you!