The greengrocer's apostrophe

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unnecessary

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apostrophe in carrots. And here's a fun

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fact. This is so common in shops that

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it's called the greengrocer's apostrophe

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in British English. It's definitely not

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just greengrocers who are guilty of this

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though.

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Remember, if you struggle with how to

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use any of this punctuation, or you'd

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like to see all of the information

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written down and get my best punctuation

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jokes, download the PDF that goes with

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this lesson. It's free. The link is in

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the description. Or you can scan that QR

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code there. Okay, next sentence. Is

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there anything wrong here? Peanut butter

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and pickles or tomatoes with milk dot

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dot.

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They sound wrong until you try them.

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Okay, I'm not sure about those food

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combinations. And there is a punctuation

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mistake with the two dots after milk.

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Now, we have a couple of options. We

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could remove just one, creating a full

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stop, and then capitalize

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the T in they. But, another option is to

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add one more dot to form an ellipsis. An

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ellipsis has three dots in English, not

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two, not four.

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