Author: ApostropheQueen

Tutorial Tuesday – Grammar: Its and It’s

Tuesday Tutorials… Helping you with your grammar… one small tutorial at a time! Brought to you by Rakestraw Book Design rakestrawbookdesign.com Its and It’s Okay. You’re writing and suddenly you can’t remember if you need it’s or its. When in doubt, use the apostrophe, right? WRONG. There is a simple way to double check if you’re using the right version. Its This is possessive. Unlike most possessive words like Mom’s flowers, Sarah’s jeans or the man’s tie, when you use the possessive of it you don’t use an apostrophe. Why? Because the apostrophe is already being used in the other form… see the next paragraph. For example: The dog chewed its food carefully instead of gulping. It’s This is NOT possessive. This is a contraction of the words ‘it is.’ If you can replace ‘it’s’ in your sentence with ‘it is,’ use the apostrophe. For example: It’s not my fault the cat escaped when the door was open. This can also be written: It is not my fault the cat escaped when the door was open. This is the contraction version, so use the apostrophe. Is it all clear? This is a simple rule to remember, so there won’t be any trouble figuring out which one to use in the future when you write. Just ask yourself that little question… can I replace it with ‘it is’? If not, you are probably using it as a possessive, which means… all together now…. no apostrophe! Happy writing!

Bell Work #2 – Apostrophes (Party’s Candidate, The Fox, My Address)

English Bell Work #2 Apostrophes Apostrophes have three uses 1) To form possessives of nouns 2) To show the omission of letters 3) To indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters (and numbers). Whos the partys candidate for vice president this year? Who’s the party’s candidate for vice president this year? The fox had its right foreleg caught securely in the traps jaws. The fox had its right foreleg caught securely in the trap’s jaws. My address has three 7s, and Tims phone number has four 2s. My address has three 7’s, and Tim’s phone number has four 2’s. Music by incompetech.com Setences provided by: owl.english.purdue.edu

Dissassembly of a Dissertation – Episode 1

On December 9th 2009 Wikileaks.org published the first 102 pages of Kent Hovind’s doctoral dissertation. We say the first 102 pages but in fact the whole thesis is apparently published in full. Although the introduction states that there are 16 chapters it only details the first three in any detail with only a single sentence used to define chapters 4 through to 16. In fact when the whole document is examined it only goes up to chapter 4. The dissertation is untitled and is simply labeled as “Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy in Christian Education” and has been printed on a dot matrix printer. The writing style of the whole document, including spelling and grammatical errors, is laughable and is more akin to a high school assignment than the kind of work that would be submitted to a university as a submission for a doctorate. The subject matter rambles wildly off topic frequently and does not in fact in any way address the subject matter it is purported to relate to. If this is the full and final dissertation and not a very rough draft or a sample of notes – independent sources indicate that it is indeed the finished article – then either nobody at Patriot University actually read it before they gave Kent his qualification or they didnt need to and that one could obtain a PhD from this university by simply faxing them a copy of the Beano as that is about as relevant to the subject concerned as Kent’s dissertation is. When previously questioned about his dissertation …

Apostrophes 3: Complications

Some tricky situations arrive when Mr and Mrs Lee and Mr Lees all own dogs and we need to show possession. Creon’s Grammar Workshops are a series of short videos on academic writing made from the Learning Skills Centre at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand.

99 red ballons lyrics (better version)

ohoho I’m editing the description! Ok so I finally deleted the old video. and to a couple of you who said that there are a couple of mistakes in there with the spelling. I did not make them that site from where the lyrics came form made it! (I copied and pasted, yes I’m to lasy to type :P) But do please hate troll all you want on that spelling mistake I made at the end of the video, I spelled abou instead of about. oh and I am going to reveal something! I AM A GIRL MWAHAHAHA. I have noticed that there are a LOT of boys on youtube and a LOT of girls on deviantart. So ugh ya that is my description.

Rainbow Factory 3D Typography – WoodenToaster

Alright finally got this finished, even though it didn’t take as long as I expected. So yeah this is my 2nd attempt at 3D typography, and this time there shouldn’t be any animation errors or spelling mistakes. Open description for links and random stuff :) Here’s a list of what I did to make this video: Downloaded the song from Glaze’s video. Imported the song to Cinema 4D. Wrote all lyrics and animated the camera at the same time to save time and have less animation errors. Blocked up some visible lyrics with blackscreens. Fixed some animation errors and spelling mistakes. Rendered the video in Cinema 4D. Made the spectrum in Adobe After Effects. Imported everything to Premiere Pro. Edited everything together and fixed some opacity effects in Premiere Pro. Glaze (WoodenToaster): www.youtube.com My Specs: Intel Core i7 2600K QuadCore @ 3.40GHz NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (GDDR5) 8GB DDR3 RAM SteelSeries PRO Gaming Siberia V2 Headset RAT 3 Gaming mouse Microsoft SideWinder X4 Gaming Keyboard AOC F22+ Monitor. (1920 x 1080p)