Apostrophe For Me And Exclamation Marks !!!

[balloney]

I was taught to use these and shall do.

[woofgang]

don't you mean "I will do"?

[Zacs-Master]

Excellent!

[naomi24]

There's determination for you!!!!!! Well done!!!!!!!

[beso]

Aside from a few places, exclamation marks are largely for those who can't express themselves well. A well written sentence can convey the same thing.

Apostrophes are important but many people put them in the oddest places.

[TheChair]

I don't remember ever being taught to use more than one exclamation mark at a time, and the same applies to question marks. Also, they should not be preceded by a space. Clearly you weren't taught very well.

[bhg481]

Woofie (Google "I will or I shall") - "In traditional British grammar, the rule is that will should only be used with second and third person pronouns (you; he, she, it, they). With first person pronouns (I and we), the 'correct' verb to talk about the future is shall".

[Old_Geezer]

My primary school teacher taught us to have a space before them. It always looks wrong to have the punctuation jammed up against the word as if it were part of it.

As for multiple use. It may not be perfect English but it is common practice to use that to give emphasis, and that's fine as far as I am concerned.

[aelmpvw]

if i'm in the pub and get a text from 'she who must be obeyed', there are lots of exclamation marks ...

[dannyk13]

The Apostrophe Protection Society has just folded after two years.Must admit I didn't know that there was one.

[jno]

bhg, that's only half the story. One verb expresses mere futurity, the other intention. So the drowning man says "I shall die, nobody will save me", the suicide says "I will die, nobody shall save me".

[dannyk13]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-50602665

[jno]

dannyk, I have some sympathy with apostrophes in initialisms like HGV'S and TV'S - just having HGVS and TVS makes them almost unreadable.

[dannyk13]

jno, I think that the apostrophe is needed when distinguishing possession.

[Old_Geezer]

I put HGVs and TVs since the 's' isn't part of the abbreviation. I see the apostrophe as just jarring and unnecessary. But that's probably too sensible to be official.

[bhg481]

jno - that's right. I shall, you will and he will are future tense, I will, you shall and he shall are commands.

For abbreviations I tend to use eg, TVs, HGVs etc.

[THECORBYLOON]

As there is no space before a full stop, why do you leave a space before an exclamation mark?

[Old_Geezer]

Probably because punctuation without an ascender just sits on the line and has no visual perceived affect on the preceding word. Those with an ascender changes the image of the word as if it was misspelt or something.

[Old_Geezer]

Something I also dislike it the pretence that inanimate objects can't possess things. A door "owns" it's own doorknob; how dare the rules arbitrarily deny use of the apostrophe by some nonsense excuse ? Either possession is defined by 's or it isn't.

[THECORBYLOON]

Your using gaps before "!" and "?" looks odd to me.

[tiggerblue10]

Ok then!