Grammar, spelling and punctuation refreshers??

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Originally posted by Miss Meow
Beautiful! Is it six months notice, or six months' notice? Three months pregnant, or three months' pregnant? I see both a lot and can't remember what's right!

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According to the Chicago Manual of Style, it's six months' notice (analogous to the examples there: an hour's delay, three days' time).

I think, though, that it would be three months pregnant. "Pregnant" is an adjective rather than a noun, so it's not quite the same structure as the other examples. But I admit I'm guessing on that one.

A Quiz for you. :D

How`s your punctuation?

I am not revealing my score! :o

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Originally posted by ChrisH
A Quiz for you. :D

How`s your punctuation?

I am not revealing my score! :o

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I didn't understand at least three of the questions :o However, I jagged it and got nine!

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Originally posted by tatsxxx11
Apostrophes 101 Courtesy of: Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL).

Remembered I had this bookmarked! Everything you'd ever want to know about the apostrophe!

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Go Purdue!! LOL LOL
I just had to chime in here, because Purdue is my alma mater! :cool:
:D

I took that quiz - I got 8 right, and the two I missed were counted wrong becuase I answered in the American style ;)

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Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
"That's where it's at" no,no,no..."that's where it is!" I blame this one on advertising. The "at" is both unnecessary and incorrect.

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Blame that one on Ohio schoolteachers. I had NEVER in my life heard that it was wrong to end a sentence with a preposition until I attended college. I was a good English student too! I know I wrote high school English papers using sentences ending in prepositions, and no one ever corrected me. :o

I can't stand it when companies place ads with typos present! I just want to write a letter to the company and tell them to hire someone to proofread their stuff! To me, typos and misspellings are always so blantantly obvious. I don't know why, but they always seem to jump off the page. Maybe I should have been an editor or something!

I use passive voice all the time and don't even realize it, and it drives my boyfriend nuts. :p