200 English Grammar Mistakes!: A workbook of Common Grammar and Punctuation Errors with Examples, Exercises and Solutions So You Never Make Them Again


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s’ 
world.
There is the women
s’ 
locker.
The actresses
’s
costume is here.
That is the Jones
’s
residence.
Correct: 
We are in the men
’s
world.
There is the women
’s
locker.


The actresses’ costume is here.
That is the Jones’ residence.
Avoid forming plurals for numbers and capital letters by using an apostrophe.
Incorrect: 
I was born in the 
90’s
.
She got married in the 
1880’s
.
She’s a good learner as she has learned the 
ABC’s
of
common errors in English grammar.
Correct: 
I was born in the 
90s
.
She got married in the 
1880s
.
She’s a good learner as she has learned the 
ABCs
of
common errors in English grammar.
Avoid using an apostrophe with possessive words like 
his

hers

theirs
, etc.
Incorrect: 
Although he believed the grade was his
’s
, she had always
known it’s hers
’s
.
The idea behind the innovation was theirs
’s
.
Those cupcakes belong to my brother, not your
’s
.
Correct: 
Although he believed the grade was his, she had always
known it’s hers.
The idea behind the innovation was theirs.
Those cupcakes belong to my brother, not yours.
Hyphens (-)
Hyphens are used to showcase compound words. These compound words
may come as two, three, or four words to refer to a single thing. Before
studying the rules attached to learning how the hyphen is used, look at the
examples below:
Eye-opening (meaning that an unexpected revelation is being
revealed)
Mother-in-law (the mother of your wife)


Door-in-the-face (using a big request as a means to get other
smaller requests)
Foot-in-the-door (the opposite of the Door-in-the-face)
Now, let’s check out the rules you must not break in using hyphenation.
The first rule in hyphenation is: 
before you think of hyphenating two
unfamiliar words, make sure you check them in your dictionary.
This will
enable you to be sure that you are not making a mistake. Most times, the
major mistakes students make is that they use unfamiliar words and
hyphenate them before taking time to find out. For example, “eyewitness”
must never be hyphenated, but “eye–opener” exists in the dictionary
hyphenated, and not joined together. This makes the rule valid that your
dictionary must be your closest pal if you desire to be excellent at
hyphenating words.
Use hyphens when you have two or more adjectival words appearing before a
noun and serving as a single meaning.
Before she met me, little did she know that I was such a

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