Here is a big pet peeve for me. When people misuse the placement of apostrophes when showing possession.
Incorrect: "James' bike is a Look 555"
Correct: "James's bike is a Look 555"
When the subject ends with an "s", add an apostrophe and then another "s". It is just that simple.
Here's the point: apostrophe and then an "s"!!!! It really shouldn't be that difficult.
Correct Examples:
"Bob's"
"Your mom's"
"Jesus's"
This probably rubs off as meaningless to you, but I thought that you might get a kick out of what goes on inside my mind. Pretty deep, huh?
p.s. I rode with Team Strada today. They were all pretty nice, but we for sure still haven't figured out on a team. There are a lot of positives and negatives that we will have to consider.
They're really old school. One of their biggest goals is to develop a cadence of 200 rpm. I ended up riding with Nick Thorpe (15 years old), Jeff Biever, Lisa Kolin (Mike Kolin's wife), and a couple other people (including Dad).
Nick Thorpe has a wicked acceleration. Jeff sort of launched an acceleration up a climb that really got us going. Nick exploded his way into the lead, but I crawled my way back (because I can't spin as fast as they can, I'm like Jan Ullrich). Then I punched it home to lead Nick to the top of the climb. Pretty fun, though I was spinning out of control and my chain was screaming at me.
The only other hard riding was on a flatter section coming back into town. Sometimes they will just randomly jump, prompting a rapid succession of accelerations. The first one caught me out, but we regrouped quickly. I got in the drops and the right gear. I followed all the moves, feeling very good. Near the end, my dad kicked it into overdrive and left everyone behind except for Jeff. I bridged up just before the end.
So it was fun. But we have much to decide.
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That doesn't bug me as much as the constant misuse of him/he, her/she, me/I, we/us etc. That's not quite as simple, but as long as you can distinguish between objective and nominative case, it ought to be relatively easy to utilize the correct pronouns in your speech and more importantly in your writing.
You need a hobby, or need to become an English teacher.
200????????????
Flip a coin at this point to pick a team, or toss a dart at a board with all the team names on it. Or just go with the one that pays the most, if they want you they will cough up the $$$ plus the new bike with a PowerTap, and two sets of 404s.
Oh, hey, did you hear what Alexy (sp) did to his front wheel right at the start of the last Waterford race???
It was real cool :D!
nope...but I'd love to hear!
Actually, I believe both forms are correct. This may also be regional. And you should definitely go with whichever team has the most stylish kit.
"Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.
Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,
Charles's friend
Burns's poems
the witch's malice
Exceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names ending in -es and -is, the possessive Jesus', and such forms as conscience' sake, for righteousness' sake. But such forms as Moses' Laws, Isis' temple are commonly replaced by
the law of Moses
the temple of Isis"
- Strunk and White the Elements of Style.
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