How do we pronounce apostrophe s after th? For example month's? And how do we pronounce deaths?
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How to pronounce the two and distinguish them in pronunciation as I almost hear them the same.
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My best friend of the moment - 'Essential Grammar in Use' for elementary students by Raymond Murphy - says that 'we normally use -'s for people.'     I stayed at my sister's house. (not the house of my sister).   Then, bellow in the same unit (64) says that 'we use of... for things, places, etc.'     Look at the roof of that building. (not that building's roof)   After that I thought:  Finally!!! I understand the rules for apostrophes!!!  But soon I lost all that naif excitement when I saw other written examples on the internet that were not following those 'rules'.     I've learnt that we can apply apostrophes to ...     one year's pay   and, finally, amazingly enough ... to , which means ANY kind of nouns (I deduce uncountable nouns are also part of the possibilities). This demolishes what is said in the grammar. So, it seems that eventually:     That building's roof -> is valid   So, now I need your help.    1) Can you tell me the rules concerning the apostrophe to show possession in respect to its usage with nouns? Can we really apply to all kind of nouns? e.g. teeth's, vehicle's, Paula's, forest's, manager's, Ireland's, etc     Scotland's worst drivers   Metadata improves information's accessibility       2) Is there a sense that justifies what is written in the grammar: 'we normally use -'s for people'? or it does not make sense at all?
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I am not a native speaker, and I find it very interesting that night is written with gh. Why is it spelled this way?
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If I was to label something      The Poets and Painters' Distillery    do I only apply the possessive apostrophe after 'Painters' as in the text written above, or do I also need to apply one to 'Poets' so that it becomes      The Poets' and Painters' Distillery ?    I'm thinking the former is correct, but cannot be too sure.
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Why does the place of the apostrophes differ in the following two titles?   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two's_complement en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones'_complement   Which one is the correct?
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Why do we say the following?        I'll have an hour's wait at the airport      Today's lesson      Yesterday's programme    Two weeks' worth of groceries.      They are not possessive, or are they? Why is the possessive apostrophe used with time expressions and adverbs?
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I'm not a native English speaker but I'm always trying to do my best. Unfortunately I have a real problem with dates for some odd reason, I couldn't learn when was my birthday until I was 12 years old.  Anyway, as I was learning names of the months on English, and since I know some Latin from high school I noticed that English months don't match up with their Latin numeral counterparts. For example:  September - 9. month October - 10. month November - 11. month December - 12. month  While on latin septem, octo, novem and decem are words for 7, 8, 9 and 10.  So, does anyone know why is that. At first I thought it had something to do with switch from Julian to Gregorian calendar but I figured it's too small of a difference.  Anyone? :)
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The following words and their plurals seem to be somewhat inconsistent:   combo / combos concerto / concertos grotto / grottos / grottoes (?) hero / heros (?) / heroes potato / potatos (?) / potatoes tornado / tornados / tornadoes tomato / tomatos / tomatoes volcano / volcanos / volcanoes   Is there a common source for -s versus -es? With regards to words such as "heros", is it likely to see more words start dropping -es in favor of -s?  (If you have any other good examples of strange plurals from words ending in "o" feel free to edit them into the question.)
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Where did the practice of using apostrophes for possessive nouns but not pronouns originate?  For example, possessive nouns (both proper and common) are written with a apostrophe before the final s:        Bill’s, not Bills   Sarah’s, not Sarahs   the bear’s, not the bears   the lizard’s, not the lizards      On the other hand, several possessive pronouns do not have apostrophes before the s:        his, not hi’s   hers, not her’s   its, not it’s   theirs, not their’s   ours, not our’s   yours, not your’s      When and where did this usage originate? Was there any technical advantage of this usage?
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1) Alex's house      2) Alex' house     When the noun ends with the letter 's' or 'x', do I need to put 's' after an apostrophe or not?  I remember I read some rules related to this in my school grammar book, but now I've forgotten it.
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What is the correct pronunciation of the word processes? I am confused because my mother tongue is not English, and in my company some say it as "process-eez" and some say it "process-ess".
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In expressions such as "ham 'n eggs", the conjunction 'n appears to replace and, yet there is only one apostrophe to indicate the missing a and none for the missing d (i.e., no "ham 'n' eggs").    Is there a punctuation rule that governs this or is it just an idiosyncratic case?
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My question is can I always pronounce THE with thuh instead of thee? Because unlike "a" "an" rule, pronouncing "thee" seems cumbersome for some people (including me) Note that I know the "emphasis" and "vowel, consonant" rule about THE but I still prefer to pronounce it as thuh everytime. So can I??
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It seems like there should be a simpler way than:  import string s = "string. With. Punctuation?" # Sample string  out = s.translate(string.maketrans("",""), string.punctuation)   Is there?
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In a sentence like     Should we host them on imgur et cetera?   where I want to abbreviate the "et cetera", what is the correct punctuation? Using a period after the "etc." like mid sentence usages seems wrong as it looks like a full stop when I read it.     Should we host them on imgur etc.?   Or is this the correct usage?
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Are apostrophes needed in this phrase?     The whys and the hows   I searched for duplicate questions, but the closest I found was in regard to
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What's the grammar behind A'warring, from the lyrics of Symphony of Destruction by Megadeth? It's the first time I'm seeing the use of such apostrophe.