2. I don’t believe Dan Quayle should have been criticized and ridiculed for years for not being able to spell potato correctly. I feel if I were in a similar situation, I would have focused more on the letters I was hearing and reading rather than the physical word, and could have possibly made the same mistake. In a high-pressure situation as such you would read it how it is. Even if it felt wrong to him, Dan may have gone against his better judgment and trust in the words on the page. 3. A few of the words I found that have lost their hyphen are; Tuneup, Healthcare, and Makeup. I think this phenomenon occurs in our language, as people get lazier, or less educated and began to casually drop the hyphen until it became the norm. …show more content…
Singular- My name is Sylvia, and I am a first year at Santa Monica College.
Singular possessive- Sylvia’s dog is brown.
Plural- All of sylvias family lives in California.
Plural possessive- The Haleys’ spent their weekends at the beach.
5. When I searched, “abolish the apostrophe” the first website to pop up way Killtheapostrophe.com. Majority of the points they made seemed off to me. I believe it is important to distinguish between mothers, mother’s, and mothers’. Their point about the job of an editor being a waste of time, is arrogant, and no need to diminish jobs in the