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To: danmar
Ones signature alone it shows that persons level of education.

Perhaps to demonstrate your own fine education better, that sentence should be re-written: "One's signature alone [remove "it"] shows that person's level of education." Nouns which are in the possessive form require an apostrophe...

182 posted on 07/04/2005 5:21:52 AM PDT by Conservatrix
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To: Conservatrix
Perhaps to demonstrate your own fine education better,

While English is not my primary, me thinks I can allow my self not to be perfect and proper.
Not to mention my hate for grammar.

191 posted on 07/04/2005 1:38:18 PM PDT by danmar ("No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person." Karl Hess)
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