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Hans51 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Straight A's or straight As

straight A's

I was wondering why there is an apostrophe in A's? Does it function the same as ' in Tom's book? What do you think? Thank you so much as usual!
  

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The apostrophe indicates the plural of the letter "A". It is not the possessive. There are some style guides that say that the apostrophe is used only to make the plural of lowercase letters and literal words.

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  • The apostrophe indicates the plural of the letter "A".
  • It is not the possessive.
  • There are some style guides that say that the apostrophe is used only to make the plural of lowercase letters and literal words.
  • eg.
  • Mind your p's and q's.
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The apostrophe indicates the plural of the letter "A". It is not the possessive.

There are some style guides that say that the apostrophe is used only to make the plural of lowercase letters and literal words. eg. Mind your p's and q's. Be sure to dot your i's and cross your t's. No if's, and's or but's.

The current Chicago Manual of Style recommends to use As as the plur
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Here A's is a plural, the plural of the letter A. The use of an apostrophe to form a plural is normally a bad error in English, but letter plurals are one situation where it may be tolerated, because of the confusion that can otherwise arise with ordinary words like "as" or "is".
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Hariss was so happy to learn that he earned 2 As and 3 Bs for this semester's classes

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Strunk and White say the only time you use the apostrophe to pluralize are in cases of the p's and q's mentioned above, or acronyms that have both upper and lowercase letters so as to avoid confusion.

Straight As

1960s

dot your i's

NiMH's

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