The use of apostrophes!

[XmisterIS]

"... this is consistent with the assertion that ... <insert assertion> (Smith & Clark, Year)

In your references list at the back of your paper, full reference to the paper containing the assertion (Harvard System, probably...)

BONUS: no need to worry about the apostrophe

YES PLEASE!! See here: http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=1032500&postcount=10

I thank you kindly.

*ahem*

Anyway, I should think that our use of apostrophes confuses the Germans - in German apostrophe-S is a contraction of "es" - eg "Ich kann es machen" can be written "Ich kann's machen". And they never use apostrophes with the Genitive Case (which is roughly equivalent to the Possessive Case in English).

 

[Aperitif]

Observer 13th December has this to ad'd...

 

[Speicher]

Hope he didn't make a Miele of it Alastair...

If he didn't clean the oven properly, he'd be.......Indesit......with his boss!

Are you two looking to receive a Post Trophy for this thread?

 

[Aperitif]

Are you two looking to receive a Post Trophy for this thread?

This is a recipient of the biggest "OUCH" exclamation I can muster - very good.
Naughty Speicher!

 

[Auntie Helen]

Anyway, I should think that our use of apostrophes confuses the Germans - in German apostrophe-S is a contraction of "es" - eg "Ich kann es machen" can be written "Ich kann's machen". And they never use apostrophes with the Genitive Case (which is roughly equivalent to the Possessive Case in English).

Not quite. What about, "Marx' Schriften waren revolutionär" or "Ich finde Jonas' Ethik der Verantwortung überzeugend"? (From my German textbook, 'Der Treffende Ausdruck", "When a proper name or a word referring to a family member that is used as a proper name is in the genitive, it precedes the noun it modifies. It adds an s without an apostrophe unless the word ends in an s-sound – s, ß, z, tz, x – in which case an apostrophe is added without the s."

 

[XmisterIS]

I stand corrected!