Grammar 101, ... or, pet peeves Options

[agrippa]

Here's a place for us to bore eachother to death about grammar. I'll go first.

I. POSSESSIVES AND PLURALS

Most nouns are made plural by the addition of 's' or 'es'.
computer -> computers
house -> houses

Some nouns have irregular plurals.
mouse -> mice
fish -> fish

A noun is never made plural with an apostrophe.

The apostrope and 's' are used to show possession.
Ron's (belonging to Ron)
Ginny's (belonging to Ginny)

However, pronouns have their own possessive forms:
his (belonging to him)
hers (belonging to her)
theirs (belonging to them)
its (belonging to it; it's means 'it is')

[GinnyAuror00]

The absolute worst is when there is a ridiculous dialoge tag after every sentence. For example:

"Grandfather?  Can't I go to the park today?" queried Ben [you do realize that asked sounds better...::rolls eyes::]
"No," Grandfather replied gruffly.
"Why not?" Ben persisted, his face growing redder by the minute.
"Because I said so?  Now leave me alone so that I can work!" shouted Grandfather.

This is [sadly] an example of some horrid ff I've read....::shudders:: the overusage of 'Ben', 'Grandfather' just turns you off ....and also, one is allowed to leave things 'untagged'....or just write 'said'....JK Rowling, for example, does that all the time!

-Ginny, who hates this stuff