Let's Talk About Manners...

[scbatz33]

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[scbatz33]

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You don't need the apostrophe in "someone".
(just teasing)

Well they do if they are using "someone's" as a contraction of "someone is", as in "someone is correcting the grammar of this post". Of course in the original statement, it is not necessary to say "someone is" since the sentence structure would stand alone with ou the "is" added.

 

[trilyn]

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hahahahah sorry, it's not funny but ohmigod!!!

Make him clean the bathroom from now on! He shook it, he can clean it! hahahahaha

I hate, hate, hate when my husband doesn't clip his nosehairs and then a little booger gets caught in there. Ugh *gags* I cannot stand boogers, my sister terrorized me when we were little. She pinned me to the floor, held me down and said ugh there's a booger in your nose and kept sticking her finger in my nose, kept on doing it until i got away from her and puked all the way down the hallway into the bathroom. To this day, if someone has a booger i try so hard not to gag but I always tell them hey, you might wanna wipe that. I know it's so petty and childish, but gross me out!

 

[ChooksChick]

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You don't need the apostrophe in "someone".
(just teasing)

Well, actually, you do need the apostrophe because "correcting" is a gerund, not a verb, and "someone's" is a possessive pronoun being used as a limiting adjective modifying the infinitives "to hear or to read".

Edited to add the s on to the compound "infinitive".

As a grammar nazi (I only correct myself- I agree it would be rude otherwise), I've just fallen in love with your vibrant display of grammatical rulings...are you also a neurotic and voracious reader?

 

[joebryant]

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You don't need the apostrophe in "someone".
(just teasing)

Well they do if they are using "someone's" as a contraction of "someone is", as in "someone is correcting the grammar of this post". Of course in the original statement, it is not necessary to say "someone is" since the sentence structure would stand alone with ou the "is" added.

OMG!
I repeat, "Well, actually, you do need the apostrophe because "correcting" is a gerund, not a verb, and "someone's" is a possessive pronoun being used as a limiting adjective modifying the infinitives "to hear or to read".

 

[joebryant]

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Well, actually, you do need the apostrophe because "correcting" is a gerund, not a verb, and "someone's" is a possessive pronoun being used as a limiting adjective modifying the infinitives "to hear or to read".

Edited to add the s on to the compound "infinitive".

As a grammar nazi (I only correct myself- I agree it would be rude otherwise), I've just fallen in love with your vibrant display of grammatical rulings...are you also a neurotic and voracious reader?

ChooksChick, sorry my post above came after yours. We were evidently typing/posting at the same time. Am I a neurotic and voracious reader?
No, just neurotic when my reading is compared to my wife's voracious reading.

 

[patyrdz]

People not saying excuse me. Not for passing gas , but for going in front of them or asking to to get by.

Also respecting the elderly, I get sooo upset when I see or hear someone being rude or mean to an elderly person.

Smacking gum makes me want to smack someone. Especially when they are near me, or talking to me.

 

[debilorrah]

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It makes me CRAZY when I DO say excuse me and people just stand there like taking up the entire grocery aisle is their right.

 

[JennsPeeps]

Edited to get out of the grammar game.

 

[scbatz33]

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Well they do if they are using "someone's" as a contraction of "someone is", as in "someone is correcting the grammar of this post". Of course in the original statement, it is not necessary to say "someone is" since the sentence structure would stand alone with ou the "is" added.

OMG!
I repeat, "Well, actually, you do need the apostrophe because "correcting" is a gerund, not a verb, and "someone's" is a possessive pronoun being used as a limiting adjective modifying the infinitives "to hear or to read".

Forgive me, I had not read your detailed response before posting mine. However "grammatically correct" your explanation is (and bravo for it) In the common vernacular, the "is" is not necessary. Although it maybe not "proper" or as my friend from New Zealand always says "the Queens English", it is an acceptable sentence structure.