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Bacardilimonboy Posted 23 years ago
Grammar
How you pluralize a title in quotation marks?
How does one pluralize a title within quotation marks? Please assume that the title is not one that should or could be italicized.
I'm guessing it's "A Love Lost"'s
or is it "A Love Lost"s
In my opinion, "A Love Lost"'s main flaws are its archaic prose and more importantly, its total lack of believable female characters.
What if it ends in an 's'? Like the hit TV show "Friends"?
I'm guessing it's "Friends"'
or is it "Friends"'s
"Friends"' ratings are higher than ever!
I'm guessing it's "A Love Lost"'s
or is it "A Love Lost"s
In my opinion, "A Love Lost"'s main flaws are its archaic prose and more importantly, its total lack of believable female characters.
What if it ends in an 's'? Like the hit TV show "Friends"?
I'm guessing it's "Friends"'
or is it "Friends"'s
"Friends"' ratings are higher than ever!
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I don't know how to do this, or if it's even possible. My first instinct is to avoid it as if it were made out of plutonium. The trouble with making things in quotes possessive ('s) is that many people (like me) will miss the '.
- I don't know how to do this, or if it's even possible.
- My first instinct is to avoid it as if it were made out of plutonium.
- The trouble with making things in quotes possessive ('s) is that many people (like me) will miss the '.
- Besides, even if they do notice it, they've then got to figure out how to pronounce it.
- Friendsez?.
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I don't know how to do this, or if it's even possible. My first instinct is to avoid it as if it were made out of plutonium.
The trouble with making things in quotes possessive ('s) is that many people (like me) will miss the '.
Besides, even if they do notice it, they've then got to figure out how to pronounce it. Friendsez?. A love lostez?
Why bother anyway? Why not ju
The trouble with making things in quotes possessive ('s) is that many people (like me) will miss the '.
Besides, even if they do notice it, they've then got to figure out how to pronounce it. Friendsez?. A love lostez?
Why bother anyway? Why not ju
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You're right in that there are many ways to get around having to pluralize them.
But to quote you: But, if there is a proper way to do it, I'd like to hear it. I am
an excellent online rapid fact finder and for the life of me, I couldn't find anything.
Admittedly, it is rarely one will need to show possessive of a title they can't italize.
The first time for me was when
But to quote you: But, if there is a proper way to do it, I'd like to hear it. I am
an excellent online rapid fact finder and for the life of me, I couldn't find anything.
Admittedly, it is rarely one will need to show possessive of a title they can't italize.
The first time for me was when
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I have never seen it written but I HAVE heard it said,
so there must be a correct way to write it.
I hope that you will post the answer here when you discover it.
so there must be a correct way to write it.
I hope that you will post the answer here when you discover it.
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I just receive a response from a delightful young lady at allexperts.com, which I'll paste it below.
She summed up what I suspected - because the item in quotes/italics is a "work",
it is a separate entity and will ALWAYS be be followed by an apostrophe-"s".
Put only the actual title in quotation marks/italics, and then put an apostrophe-"s"
after that (even if
She summed up what I suspected - because the item in quotes/italics is a "work",
it is a separate entity and will ALWAYS be be followed by an apostrophe-"s".
Put only the actual title in quotation marks/italics, and then put an apostrophe-"s"
after that (even if
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