The Apostrophe Revisited : Attitudes, errors and implications for teaching in an upper secondary school

An earlier corpus study on Swedish university students’ errors concerning the use of apostrophes when writing in English (overuse, omission and misplacement) is contrasted to a new corpus study of upper secondary pupils’ texts. The results turn out to be similar: omissions are numerous among the upp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lasota, Jerry
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Högskolan i Gävle, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap 2009
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4543