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apostrophes

the apostrophe is a widely misused punctuation mark. in proper usage, the apostrophe indicates either a possessive case or where a letter or letters have been removed. an apostrophe is used to indicate a plural in only one special case—when there is a lowercase letter that is plural, such as in the phrase mind your p’s and q’s.

select the sentence that violates the guidelines for apostrophes.

i’ve always considered myself open to many different styles of music. however, the grunge music of the 1990’s took me a while to appreciate. now, though, i think eddie vedder’s voice is compelling. i wonder why it took me so long to understand grunge’s appeal.

However, the grunge music of the 1990’s took me a while to appreciate.

Explanation: According to the given paragraph, apostrophes are used in three cases: to indicate a possessive case (for example "Eddie Vedder's voice" and "grunge's appeal), when a letter or letters have been removed (for example "I've" because it is an abbreviation of "I have") and the third one is to indicate that a lowercase letter is plural, therefore the sentence that violates the guidelines for apostrophes is "However, the grunge music of the 1990’s took me a while to appreciate" because it should say "1990s."

answer: inference

explanation:

an inference can be understood as a conclusion to which a person is able to get based on reasoning. it is the same as a deduction, a guess, an assumption.   in the sentence presented, the conjunction "but" gives the readers an idea of contrast, and, therefore, allows them to induce that despite the opponent's characteristics, andrea had something different that made her win.

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.