She walked into the dining room, worksheet in hand. Sure, let's see it. I'm the household grammar geek, the lover of properly placed apostrophes and semicolons.
Possessives, based on Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
, which they're reading in class.One of those assignments where they give you an awkwardly worded sentence to render simpler with a bold apostrophe. The honesty of children is refreshing. becomes Children's honesty is refreshing. That sort of thing.We discuss the logic of it, plural vs. singular, ending with s vs. not ending with s, and she's off to the races ...Mama?
Mmmmmm? I say, pondering how to deal with a J, a V, two I's, a U, an F and a W on my Word with Friends bench.
How about this one? She sits a little straighter in her seat. The eyes of the grown-ups were red from lack of sleep. Do I really need the "The" when I rewrite it? Couldn't it just be "Grown-ups' eyes were red from lack of sleep?"
Well, you could, but then it would imply all grown-ups' eyes instead of just those specific ones.
But all grown-ups' eyes are red from lack of sleep.
2 other people thinking:
Mine aren't. Not this morning anyway. But she has a point!
She does have a point! Lovely.
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