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ACT English: Punctuation Drill 2, Problem 3. Where does the semicolon fit best?
ACT English: Punctuation Drill 3, Problem 4. Which choice best formats this list of items?
ACT English: Punctuation Drill 2, Problem 5. Which choice indicates the best place for a semi-colon in the sentence?
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ACT English: Punctuation Drill 3, Problem 5. Which choice properly indicates possession?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Bus Seats.
- 00:06
There's no need for seat belts, because in an accident, a bus always wins.
- 00:11
How would you change the following sentence so that it is grammatically correct?
- 00:14
The bus' seats were so old that they were almost fossilized.
- 00:19
And here are your potential answers...
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- 00:26
Alright, well... we're either dealing with some serious hyperbole here,
- 00:29
or we have a hundred-thousand-year-old bus on our hands.
- 00:32
How should bus be written?
- 00:34
That's a job for the apostrophe -- it expresses possession.
- 00:38
Wondering when to use it?
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For most purposes, the two major ways we use apostrophes are to express possession
- 00:45
and to form a contraction. I am turns to I'm...
- 00:49
We are turns to we're...
- 00:52
Yeah...you get the idea.
- 00:54
Possession is shown by putting an apostrophe-S after the noun that is doing the possessing.
- 00:59
Say a cheap leprechaun has a pot of pyrite.
- 01:02
To express this, all you need to say is theleprechaun's pyrite.
- 01:06
What if it's a family of leprechauns?
- 01:09
Then it's multiple leprechauns' pyrite; you say it the same way, but when you write it,
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you put the apostrophe after the S.
- 01:16
Because this problem is talking about possession -- the seats belong to the bus --
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you need an apostrophe for sure.
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So B and C get thrown out right away
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We can also throw away A, because the bus isn't plural,
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so the apostrophe S won't go after the S.
- 01:29
We're left with D -- which is the correct answer.
- 01:31
Bus seats. How germs get to school.
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