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I am constantly amazed at how many Americans imagine that a simple plural can have an apostrophe in it.
There are websites such as Grammarly that explain the spelling of plurals, and nowhere do they suggest adding an apostrophe to make a plural. Apostrophes are for indicating belonging to, e.g. Roberts means two people named Robert,(or a Roberts family surname) and Robert's hat means a hat pertaining to Robert.
Most errors relate to plurals of surnames. Correctly: "The Thomsons were our neighbours." You should NEVER say "The Thomson's were our neighbours (or Neighbors if you are using US English).
If you refer to a family's ownership, you say: The Thomsons' cattle (the cattle belonging to the Thomsons).
You can tell I was a librarian and also a newspaper journalist!
I somehow managed to repeat a section of chapter two. It has now been corrected and reposted.
After a while working on it and other stories, I am now ready to post my 'Quake!' story.
After racking my brain, I worked out most of what had been wrongly deleted, and rewrote it. It meant minor amendments to chapter five, and addtional text in chapters six and seven.
I have just posted the amended offending chapters, so hopefully the story will make more sense!
For all those who noticed nd sent me queries: During the process of cuttin the story into chapters, one chunk got lost entirely! (Mea Culpa - Latin for My own fault) That is why chapter seven does not follow chapter six. I am having to rewrite the missing chunk, and then I will repost amended chapters six and seven, each of which will then be longer.
Apologies to all my careful readers who may be upset. It will get fixed, and I will announce the corrected chapters being posted.
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