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To: Innovative

How about an Apostrophe Education Program for headline writers?


4 posted on 05/01/2017 8:19:47 PM PDT by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
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To: rfp1234

Do they need’s it?


6 posted on 05/01/2017 8:22:44 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: rfp1234

That’s technically a grammatically correct headline, yet still manages to be a crappy headline.


13 posted on 05/01/2017 9:19:03 PM PDT by Read Write Repeat
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To: rfp1234
Correct: Trump administration denies it plans to end Michelle Obama’s girls' education program. An apostrophe was on the wrong side of an S.

I would have written it so that two possessives were not next to each other.

19 posted on 05/02/2017 2:39:15 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: rfp1234

Drives me crazy!


21 posted on 05/02/2017 4:29:14 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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