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Direct linkHokanson, Lesli; Kemp, Nenagh – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
In English, some words sound the same but are distinguished by silent written markers of their morphological status, as in plurals (e.g., "cities"), singular possessives (e.g., "city's") and plural possessives (e.g., "cities'"). We examined undergraduates' ability to correctly omit or position apostrophes in these three word types before and after…
Descriptors: Spelling, Morphemes, Grammar, Punctuation
