biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Recycle and garden waste bin's out ready for tomorrow
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Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I'm back !
Could you talk amongst yourselves for a while while I catch up .
Thanks !
Could you talk amongst yourselves for a while while I catch up .
Thanks !
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Very nice supper of lamb in a garlic and mint gravy, jacket tattie and steamed green beans. 
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Bin is?Aaaaargh, random apostrophe alert!!!
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
classic33
Leg End Member
It's his bin, init?Nope. That apostrophe turns it into a possessive and aaaaargh!!!
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Or a simple contraction for ''bin is?''Nope. That apostrophe turns it into a possessive and aaaaargh!!!
classic33
Leg End Member
Rubbish?
But what belongs to the bin?
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
But what belongs to the bin?
The rubbish inside it
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Not grammatically correct, hence the original "aaaargh"
Apostrophe followed by an s after a noun only indicates possessive iirc.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Explain ''it's'' then. When it's possessive, it's ''its''. Otherwise, it's a contraction for it is. Is is routinely and correctly reduced to 's. Language may not be helping me here....Not grammatically correct, hence the original "aaaargh"
Apostrophe followed by an s after a noun only indicates possessive iirc.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
It's one of those weird ones, where the one without the apostrophe is a possessive, whereas the one with is a contraction. It just is. As Bones McCoy would say, I'm a doctor (of engineering) not a grammarian...
Mind, English grammar is relatively simple. French grammar, on the other hand is truly
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
The first attempt at a ham and cheese omelette a la Raymond Blanc turned out looking like The Blob from a low budget sci-fi movie
