Shocker: Drew Dalman retires

[Trackhawk]

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I’m only going this far with this cause you always take it upon yourself to correct everyone’s grammar…. So just saying….

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Team is a bad example as it can be both singular and plural, depending on the context, though it is generally singular.

The team’s bus is correct use of singular possessive, if we are talking about one team and their bus.

The teams’ buses would be correct use of the plural possessive for multiple teams and their buses.

The Chicago Bears is the name of the team, not The Chicago Bear. Bears is, by definition, plural. Thus, the correct possessive would be The Bears’ Bus, or The Bears’ Center, in this case.

 

[bileever]

I read it as the bear’s, as in the team’s center. Which would be the royal BEAR’s possess drew dalman… xept he retired

Yes, I meant the possessive. I was meaning to type Bears' but failed. I could edit it, but it is causing too much fun.

 

[RolandDeschain]

But we’re not talking about who owns the Bears, we’re talking about who owns drew dalman. And nobody now, but he was owned by the bears. He was the bears’ center. Is that correct professor?

 

[Sperrydogg]

Yes, I meant the possessive. I was meaning to type Bears' but failed. I could edit it, but it is causing too much fun.

YES!!!!!

 

[Sperrydogg]

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Nah I think I got you this time teacher

 

[RolandDeschain]

Nah I think I got you this time teacher

No, your usage was still not correct, lol.

 

[Rat]

Yeah, isn't that crazy about Dalman?

 

[SoulfishHawk]

The more people correct mine; I'll just do it more.

 

[Sperrydogg]

No, your usage was still not correct, lol.

I only want to explain this too you because your a different kinda a guy, I’d rather end this conversation. But for the last interaction ever I will have with you, you called him out for using an apostrophe in a plural situation where it wasn’t required. I pointed out that he was actually using the word bear’s in a possessive manner. And you argued with me that I was wrong and that the bears can’t possess anything? I think was your position, but you are wrong there, it’s very common to refer to a player as belonging to a team. So then comes in the added degree of difficulty which would be the plural possessive situation we have here so the correct way to write it would be the Bears’ qb or bears’s” like @sutz said

It not the grammar that annoys it’s the correcting of people….

 

[ivotuk]

Possessives do use the apostrophe, that's NOT a possessive, though; unless "Bear" is the name of the owner of the Chicago Bears and nobody told me.

According to Swerski's Superfans, it should be "Chicago Beers"

 

[SoulfishHawk]

 

[chris98251]

Gunslinger uses a knife to cut up peoples grammer, this thread is not as interesting as his temperature on the field thread arguement, that was very good, do better Gunslinger and Honor your Father.

 

[ivotuk]

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Yes, but what about the Grammar Ho?

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Ho Cakes.................."Hoes gotta eat too!"

 

[RolandDeschain]

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I'm way too much of a dick about grammar to be just a "bunny".

 

[Trackhawk]

Yeah, isn't that crazy about Dalman?

Who?

 

[ivotuk]

While there are exceptions, using an apostrophe with plural versions of single letters is allowed, but not required. People also often mix up the year thing, when you SHORTEN the years, it becomes '90s, with the apostrophe before and not after, 1990s as in the plural for the time period has no apostrophe, unless you are denoting ownership/possession, in which case you could say something grammatically correct such as "1990's best film was Goodfellas", which is referring to the best film of that single year, while if you were to say "The best film of the 1990s was Goodfellas", you are referring to the entire decade of the 1990s. Uncommon edge cases are hardly something to try and hang your hat on for this.

There went my erection...

 

[RolandDeschain]

There went my erection...

If only your wife could tell.

 

[ivotuk]

If only your wife could tell.

She would never tell anybody!

 

[Appyhawk]

Sure hope we get all this crap out of our system during the offseason. Or should that be system's?