If there was a sign showing you which way the cash machines were, should it read ATMS or ATM'S?
Neither. ATMs.
Technically I'm not sure it's any of the above. Machines is the word that the M is representing so by adding an s on the end of the acronym (actually an initialism as the initials don't spell a word) you are pluralising a plural. So it should just be ATM.
But don't you need the "s" to differentiate between a single and multiple number of the aforementioned machines? Otherwise the reader is left with incomplete information.
The s is helpful but I'm not sure it's correct. I do however stand to be corrected on the matter.
ATM is an acronym for Automated Teller Machine - singular. I believe the (s) should be added if describing more than one.
If there was a sign showing you which way the cash machines were, should it read ATMS or ATM'S?
Neither. ATMs.
Technically I'm not sure it's any of the above. Machines is the word that the M is representing so by adding an s on the end of the acronym (actually an initialism as the initials don't spell a word) you are pluralising a plural. So it should just be ATM.
But don't you need the "s" to differentiate between a single and multiple number of the aforementioned machines? Otherwise the reader is left with incomplete information.
The s is helpful but I'm not sure it's correct. I do however stand to be corrected on the matter.
ATM is an acronym for Automated Teller Machine - singular. I believe the (s) should be added if describing more than one.
ATM is also an acronym for Automated Teller Machines though.
Misused apostrophes are one of my biggest pet peeves. I don't get why almost everyone puts one before the s for a decade (i.e. 70's). Surely the apostrophe should be before the 70 to indicate that there are numbers missing (in this case 19)?
Misused apostrophes are one of my biggest pet peeves. I don't get why almost everyone puts one before the s for a decade (i.e. 70's). Surely the apostrophe should be before the 70 to indicate that there are numbers missing (in this case 19)?
Perhaps someone could correct me?
Correct imo.
I think I'll 'phone someone about it.
I wish also that one of my regular thread reads wasn't entitled "Under 23's". Under 23's what? Surely @i_b_b_o_r_g should have sorted that by now?
Misused apostrophes are one of my biggest pet peeves. I don't get why almost everyone puts one before the s for a decade (i.e. 70's). Surely the apostrophe should be before the 70 to indicate that there are numbers missing (in this case 19)?
Perhaps someone could correct me?
'70 just replaces 19 but doesn't convey the meaning of a ten year period.
We would write formally "during the period from 1970 to 1980", we would say "during the seventies". So writing "during the 70s" is shorthand reflecting the spoken word and i think the apostrophe, if used, is an irrelevance and an attempt to follow grammar rules that haven't been written and don't need to be written.
Misused apostrophes are one of my biggest pet peeves. I don't get why almost everyone puts one before the s for a decade (i.e. 70's). Surely the apostrophe should be before the 70 to indicate that there are numbers missing (in this case 19)?
Perhaps someone could correct me?
'70 just replaces 19 but doesn't convey the meaning of a ten year period.
We would write formally "during the period from 1970 to 1980", we would say "during the seventies". So writing "during the 70s" is shorthand reflecting the spoken word and i think the apostrophe, if used, is an irrelevance and an attempt to follow grammar rules that haven't been written and don't need to be written.
Not quite on topic but I liked it when the Michael Gove as Education Secrerary said that he wanted to raise the standards of all children so that they were all above average.
SO, going back to the cash machines at Liverpool street, is my father in law right to keep picking off the apostrophe or should he also take the s away?
SO, going back to the cash machines at Liverpool street, is my father in law right to keep picking off the apostrophe or should he also take the s away?
There is universal agreement that there is no place for the apostrophe - but some disagreement in regards to the s. For me it stays and some agree - for others it goes. Take's your pick.
Possibly a lower case s. Definitely no apostrophe needed.
Lower case s but if there's an apostrophe it would to be something about the ATM or short for ATM is. For example, the ATM's reliability is poor or the ATM's not working.
That quiz: long is NOT an adverb because the word walk that follows it is a gerund, i.e. a verb used as a noun. It is therefore an adjective. Stupid twats.
That quiz: long is NOT an adverb because the word walk that follows it is a gerund, i.e. a verb used as a noun. It is therefore an adjective. Stupid twats.
That quiz: long is NOT an adverb because the word walk that follows it is a gerund, i.e. a verb used as a noun. It is therefore an adjective. Stupid twats.
So you're the only one who didn't get 25/25? ;-)
Oi! I'll have you know I must be an English student like the rest of you.
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Perhaps someone could correct me?
I think I'll 'phone someone about it.
I wish also that one of my regular thread reads wasn't entitled "Under 23's". Under 23's what? Surely @i_b_b_o_r_g should have sorted that by now?
There, their, they're.
We would write formally "during the period from 1970 to 1980", we would say "during the seventies". So writing "during the 70s" is shorthand reflecting the spoken word and i think the apostrophe, if used, is an irrelevance and an attempt to follow grammar rules that haven't been written and don't need to be written.
Just because you crack out tunes doesn't mean you can get away with such flagrant disregard for SPaG.
I will accept 2 free tickets to the protest buffet as compensation