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		<title>Perfect Use of Apostrophe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>If you want to write English in a perfect manner you have to master the grammar of English language. Unless you have no depth in the English grammar quite efficiently you are not to obtain the power of writing English in a lucid manner.</p>
<p>Whether you are a native or a foreigner the first thing you have to note is to go through the basics of English grammar. The natives have the facility to read the language in their own language but if you are an ESL you have to devote enough time to learn how to master the art of writing flair.</p>
<p>Again you try to express something through your writing you must note that the writing is perfect and without any error. Your sole aim is to reciprocate your ideas in an effective manner so that the others who go though the writing must face no problem to comprehend it.</p>
<p>If you are willing to write on the web you have to take it in mind that the global readers are there to connoisseur   your writing. If they fail to dip delve into your writing you are sure to taste the bitterness of failure and can never be acclaimed in the long run. Some basic ideas of grammar is there to be assimilated ... <a href='http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/english-basics/perfect-use-of-apostrophe.htm' rel="nofollow">Read more...</a></p>]]></description>
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		<title>Grammar &#8211; The Possessive and Plural Nouns and Proper Names</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The difficulty over the apostrophe starts when we move on to plural nouns.  The problem arises from thinking that the apostrophe has something to do with making words plural. It does not. To repeat the point we made earlier: adding&#8217;s has nothing to do with making words plural.</p>
<p>We usually make nouns plural by adding s; so, for example, cat becomes cats; student becomes students. There are, though, some words which make their plurals differently: the plural of child is children; leaf becomes leaves; kiss becomes kisses; mouse becomes mice. Most nouns, however, form plurals simply by adding s to the singular.</p>
<p>Where students usually get in a muddle &#8211; if this applies to you, read slowly at this point &#8211; is with the apostrophe when there is a plural noun. There is, though, no need for confusion. The basic rule is that you adds to form a possessive. Thus:</p>
<p>The children&#8217;s party had to be cancelled.</p>
<p>This means that the party of the children had to be cancelled: the plural noun is children. With this example we can compare the following, all adding&#8217;s: George&#8217;s essay, France&#8217;s... <a href='http://www.studyenglishgrammar.com/grammar/grammar-the-possessive-and-plural-nouns-and-proper-names.htm' rel="nofollow">Read more...</a></p>]]></description>
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