Friday 9 August 2013

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 14

Two recent examples of a common error:


 

There are further punctuation issues (notably, but not exclusively, in the second extract), but the key point here is that both sentences lack the apostrophes required in ordinary possessive constructions. The former, discussing ‘the difference of thousands of pounds’, should be thousands of pounds’ difference; and the latter should transmit ‘the worth of thousands [of pounds]’ as thousands’ worth of products.

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