PUNCTUATING COMPOUND POSSESSIVES *IN GENERAL, the way to make joint possession for compound nouns is to make only the second noun possessive by adding ‘s to the end. (Example: Bill and Ted’s excellent house is blue.) But when one of the possessors is a personal pronoun, it doesn’t make sense Read more…
UNINTERESTED: someone who has no interest in something; indifferent, unenthusiastic, or unconcerned DISINTERESTED: someone without an interest in something; unbiased and impartial
A HOMOPHONE is a word that SOUNDS the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of “rise”), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and Read more…