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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Language: | English |
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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 |