Not exactly pulling up trees...

[Swanaldo]

This states that you get annoyed when you see an apostrophe present when it has no business being there.

Is that what you meant?

Yes. That is what I meant.

 

[alsatian cousin]

Yes. That is what I meant.

Well done you!
You have my permission to take that errant apostrophe and put it in your knapsack. Hopefully you will find it useful later on whilst continuing your crusade against the unspeakable crimes of poor punctuation. '''''''''. There are a few more..just in case!

 

[Swanaldo]

Thank's very much.

 

[alsatian cousin]

Thank's very much.

I'm going to gracefully bow out of this conversation now. Just one last thing. It was incorrect of you to use an apostrophe in your above post. Thank is a singular noun so no need for it in the plural. One could say it was extraneous. And some people may be annoyed by it.

 

[STURTZ]

I'm going to gracefully bow out of this conversation now. Just one last thing. It was incorrect of you to use an apostrophe in your above post. Thank is a singular noun so no need for it in the plural. One could say it was extraneous. And some people may be annoyed by it.

I think you've been whooshed!

 

[Red the Paper]

. And some people may be annoyed by it.

It is not good form to begin a sentence with the word "and".

 

[Alistair20000]

It is not good form to begin a sentence with the word "and".

Grammatically you are correct but accepted modern language seems to be more tolerant. Starting a sentence with "And" no longer annoys me. As for apostrophes they are a bit of an endangered species so I believe we should tolerate the occasional misuse.

 

[edindevon]

It is not good form to begin a sentence with the word "and".

In some instances it is acceptable to start a sentences with such a conjunction, generally as long as a comma is used immediately afterwards. Abraham Lincoln used "and" to start one of his sentences in his Gettysburg Address.

Having said that "Moreover", "In addition", or "Furthermore" might have sufficed here instead.

What was this thead about again?

 

[Alistair20000]

What was this thead about again?

Annoying phrases. Any further examples ?

 

[Red the Paper]

In some instances it is acceptable to start a sentences with such a conjunction, generally as long as a comma is used immediately afterwards. Abraham Lincoln used "and" to start one of his sentences in his Gettysburg Address.


What was this thead about again?[/QUOT

The Gettysburg Address is a poor example of correct grammar.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".