Due to Superpoolie from here pulling out (he claims it's due to finances, I think his new girlfriend has said he can't go)

The following one place has become available.

A journey to Brighton on the 31st January to watch Pools'

This includes train travel from Darlington to Kings Cross on the Saturday, and return on the Sunday. Underground passes to Victoria and an overnight stay in a Travel lodge in London on Saturday evening. Cost to be paid on day, if we know you,(which we would prefer) if not prior to the day. To stop anyone we dont know just not turning up.

Not included Train from London to Brighton and the return, ticket to game or any alcohol costs.

All the above for the pricely sum of £30, yes you have read that correct £30. Anyone interested please pm myself or Tax Paying Poolie and hopefully someone can fill that now void space.

have you asked pok

pm sent Bob!!!

That is one helluva price. Wish I could make it

Why have you put an apostrophe after Pools?

Why aren't you subbing Page 5?

Ok from waht I can remember from school an apostrophe has 2 functions Possesive and contractions.

Possessive is when something belongs to someone or something so we can say the whiskers of the cat, no need for an apostrophe in whiskers as they plural more than one. Or we can say the cat's whiskers an apostrophe is used in the cat's as it is singular therefore the apostrophe s shows that.

When the possessor is single we indicate possession by using an apostrophe followed by the letter 's'

The man's coat

When the possessors are plural,( or abbreviation) the apostrophe is placed after the final 's':

The girls' bicycles

If a name end with the letter 's', either can be used

James' wife or James's wife.

So as Pools' is an abbreviation the apostrophe can be used after the letter s

End of lesson I hope and hopefully i would have remembered right.

Wrong, the apostrophe position in that statement is used to replace the word 'is'. For instance, if you wrote 'The man's digging'... it shortens the sentence from 'the man is digging' ... it's only used to replace the word 'is' in the sentence.

The apostrophe

The apostrophe (’) is used in two ways.

To show where letters have been missed out of a word - for example, hasn't instead of has not, isn't instead of is not.
To show that something belongs to something else - for example, John's list, the horse's mouth.
That's (that is) all very straightforward, but several problems crop up.

1. Its and it's (IMPORTANT - lots of people get this wrong)

it's means 'it is'
its means 'belonging to it'

There is no easy way to remember this, so I suggest that you avoid the problem altogether: always write it is, when that's what you mean. Then its (belonging to it) will look after itself. No apostrophe is needed; it couldn't be easier!

In short, you will have problems with its and it's ONLY if you are too lazy to write it is!

2. Plurals

(a) When the plural ends with an "s" then we put the apostrophe after the "s". For example, the mouth belonging to a single horse is 'The horse's mouth' but the mouths belonging to several horses are 'The horses' mouths'.

As another example, the teeth belonging to one animal are the animal's teeth, but the teeth belonging to several animals are animals' teeth, and the kennel belonging to two dogs is the dogs' kennel.

(b) If the plural does not end in an "s", then you add an apostrophe and an "s".

For example, the room that men use is the men's room. The children sleep in the children's bedroom (or bedrooms). The people's story is the story of the people.[But sometimes we speak of different types of people - for example, the Soviet people and the people of the South-Sea Islands. Then (and only then) we could speak of the peoples' story (or stories).

3. Personal pronouns

A book belonging to her is hers, a book belonging to them is theirs. Similarly, your book is yours, and our book is ours. No apostrophe is needed in these cases. And - let's repeat it once more - a thing belonging to it is its. Again, no apostrophe.

4. Talking about years

It is wrong to write 'In the 1990's there was much turmoil.' The use of an apostrophe here suggests that something belongs to the 1990s, whereas we are writing about the 1990s as a span of years.
It is correct to write 'In the 1990s...'

5. Other problem cases

A problem sometimes arises when people's names end with an "s". For example, the book that belongs to Mr Jones is Mr Jones's book. The hat that belongs to Mrs Bass is Mrs Bass's hat. But what about the book that belongs to Mr and Mrs Jones? I would call this the Jones's book. But whenever you get into potential problem areas such as this it is wise to play safe by rearranging your sentence - write "the book that belongs to Mr and Mrs Jones."

Another problem arises with words such as "species". The habitat of a species can be written as the species' habitat (because to write species's habitat would be ridiculous - just try saying it!).

In truth, you can avoid all these potential problems - and save yourself a lot of time and angst - just by rearranging your sentence. For example, do you really need to write the species' habitat, when the habitat of the species will avoid all difficulties?



In a PoK cut and paste stylee.

Ripper is right.

It's not ridiculous. "Species's habitat" is the only correct way of writing it; whether or not you pronounce the "s" on each side of the apostrophe is a different matter.
Which brings us to an important meta-rule: apostrophes only have any sense in *written* English. In reality they're a bit of an anachronism; you could write without ever using any apostrophes and there would be next to no ambiguity (the Danish assure me of this as that's exactly how they do write possessives).

The Personal Pronoun rules overlook an exception: "one's" always has an apostrophe, presumably to disambiguate it with "ones" as in The Young Ones.

He's a Greengrocer

Good effort Bob but you're wrong!

What you's' on about'?

is this ticket offer still on the table like?

Chip if you contact Tax Paying Poolie he will let you know how we getting to Darlo, I not sure.

Parmo, I have pm'd you with an answer.

replied back to you Bob!!!