Pizza's?

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01cite10Andyw1234512cite12br
10Hi guys,12br
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10Drove past a restaraunt 11b10(restaurant12b10) today and it was advertising pizzas, now it wrote this as 'we sell pizza's' - am I write 11b10(right12b10) in thinking that it should be pizzas (i.e. plural)?12br
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0"Pizzas" is the plural: "We sell pizzas."02br
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00"Pizza's" is a possessive: "The pizza's topping was delicious."02br
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00"Pizza's" is also a contraction: "Pizza's my favorite food."0-

0Hi Grammarguy,02br
00Welcome!02br
00By the way, you are not related to Grammar Geek; are you?02img02br
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00<<>>"01i00Pizza's" is also a contraction: "Pizza's my favorite food."02i02br
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00 "This is John's restaurant"- it's cor

0"Pizza's my favorite food" is very informal -- I would only use a contraction like this when writing dialog.0-

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01cite10Andyw1234512cite10now it wrote this as 'we sell pizza's' 12br
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10This is sometimes called the 11i10greengrocer's apostrophe12i10, i.e. a redundant apostrophe before a plural inflection on notices promoting foodstuffs. (11b10Potatoe's12b10 is also quite common.)

0Thanks guys - so I am correct in thinking that pizzas means more than one and pizza's is used when you are talking about one pizza or abreviating pizza is/has?02br
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0 Yes, pizzas means more than one, and pizza's means either "of the pizza" or "pizza is"/"pizza has", e.g.02br
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001. Here are your 77 pizzas. (= plural)02br
002. My pizza's cold. (= is cold)02br
003. My pizza's got too many anchovies on top. (= has got)02br
004. This pizza's provenance is unknown. (= the provenance of this pizza)02br

0Thanks Mr P - your help is greatly appreciated.0-

0then there's always the question of 01i00pizzaz02i02br
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00As in: 01i00This pizza's got pizzaz!02i02br
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00sorry, couldn't resist0-

Does the ' go before the s?