Scottish Elises

...if this landed on your car?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/spac ... Earth.html

Would make for an interesting call to the insurance company...

I'm not a Telegraph (or any newspaper) reader. I am surprised by the poor grammar in this article!! The information content is a bit sparse too What's the betting they just copied this from somewhere else!
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into the Earths atmosphere

[missing apostrophe]

X-ray Surveys

[Survey is not a proper noun]

earth

[Earth is a proper noun in this context; used as a proper noun earlier in same article!]

telescopes' mirror

[There is only one telescope, so should be telescope's]

to scatter over a 50 mile wide somewhere

[A 50 mile wide what?]

the equator.

[The Equator is a proper noun]

Robin was this you?

No! I would have done a better job on matching the original font Actually, I wouldn't do such a thing.

Normally I don't care (other than in jest with Tut etc.), but I was amazed that the Telegraph, the sort of newspaper that you might expect to be the last bastion of proper English, would publish an article like that.

Honestly, I don't go looking for missing apostrophes ..

Cheers,
Robin

Robin, can you get number two correct?

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/onlin ... rophes.htm

tut

Got them all correct

/bored

tut wrote:Robin, can you get number two correct?

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/onlin ... rophes.htm

tut

Surprised myself when I got them all correct.

So what is with the answer to two?

Tried the apostrophe in the correct position, then in the other one and not at all, but it would still not give me a correct.

tut

Remember how disappointed I was when I went out to Singapore in '63 as a sprog Royal Marine, and despite the wind ups, discovered that slotty's did not run horizontal, but were the same as the rest of the world.

tut

tut wrote:Remember how disappointed I was when I went out to Singapore in '63 as a sprog Royal Marine, and despite the wind ups, discovered that slotty's did not run horizontal, but were the same as the rest of the world.

tut

Slottys in that context has no apostrophe

rossybee wrote:

tut wrote:Remember how disappointed I was when I went out to Singapore in '63 as a sprog Royal Marine, and despite the wind ups, discovered that slotty's did not run horizontal, but were the same as the rest of the world.

tut

Slottys in that context has no apostrophe

discovered that slotty's did not run horizontal, but were the same as the rest of the world. Tut sometimes your observations are priceless ......

Despite failing Higher English twice, I still managed to get all the apostrophes in the correct place!

In number two, it is assumed that the ball belongs to all of the girls and so the answer is:

Tina, Lucy, Laura and Pat were playing. Jamie crept up and kicked the girls' ball.

Back to the original post, I'm off to check my policy...... Nah, I can't be bothered. I'll take a chance on it landing on my uninsured Metro shed.

That is what I put in first time Kev, it marked all the words up as correct in red, but would not come up with the single answer of "correct".

tut