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 Raven Gnosis
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Registered: 02/10/11
Posts: 903
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 Punctuation Question... 
#16066455 - 04/09/12 07:48 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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So, I hit a wall here... I'm doing the final edit in a book of mine and I noticed an odd placement of an apostrophe in a section of a writing, which I am having a brain shit as to whether or not it is appropriate...
"The setting sun seducing me unto the fleeing horizon's calm"
Or...
"The setting sun seducing me unto the fleeing horizons calm"
The first feels correct to me and is how I had it...
Which is correct, the previous or the latter?
I've spent the past 20 minutes trying to figure this one out but am having trouble... 
Help would be deeply appreciated!
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It took a moment to sink in, but there it was on the damp gravestone, my name. I wiped the mud and rain from these etchings in stone and stood in the dimming late autumn light, wondering what this meant for myself.
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 AUX
Entheogenist
Registered: 03/12/11
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"The setting sun seducing me unto the fleeing horizon's calm" is right. The fleeing horizon is the subject and the calm is the fleeing horizon's.
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Raven Gnosis
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 Re: Punctuation Question... [Re: AUX]
#16066615 - 04/09/12 08:22 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Thank you so much... I don't know why I got so confused, I figured the possessive nature would make it such but then became worried that I was making the horizon plural somehow.... 
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It took a moment to sink in, but there it was on the damp gravestone, my name. I wiped the mud and rain from these etchings in stone and stood in the dimming late autumn light, wondering what this meant for myself.
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Viveka
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Registered: 10/21/02
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Apostrophes do not indicate plural. Ever. Ever ever ever ever ever.
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Throw out your gold teeth and see how they roll
The answer they reveal - life is unreal
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