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To: ilovesarah2012
Title should be "Blacks' Dilemma."

The apostrophe indicates that the dilemma belongs to "Blacks." If it were only ONE black, then "Black's" would be correct. Since it belongs to blacks - plural - the correct placement of the apostrophe is after the "s," thus indicating that all of them have a dilemma and not just one of them.

End of grammar lesson..... :)

46 posted on 08/22/2011 6:08:20 AM PDT by Prov3456
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To: Prov3456

Bravo! I for one love the grammar and spelling police!


49 posted on 08/22/2011 6:27:03 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Prov3456; ilovesarah2012

It’s comforting to see individuals with such in depth perspectives who find the most pressing issues in life are punctuation and spelling.


65 posted on 08/22/2011 8:53:31 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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