ANN: New Book: Programming in Python 3
Paul Rudin
paul.nospam at rudin.co.uk
Fri Dec 19 13:23:45 EST 2008
Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:
> Steve Holden schrieb:
>> Thomas Heller wrote:
>>> Question from a non-native english speaker: is this now valid english?
>>>
>>> "One of Python’s great strengths"
>>> ^
>>> "and also teaches Python’s functional programming features"
>>> ^
>>> "The book’s approach is wholly practical"
>>> ^
>> It always has been valid English. The apostrophe is only omitted from
>> personal pronouns (hers, its, and so on).
>
> I see, thanks. But, is the apostrophe optional in the above fragments?
No.
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