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The Professional Word Services Library

The Library will be our opportunity to share practical, work-related information and a few fun things with site visitors. We've got lots of ideas and plans, all subject to finding time aside from client work to do them!

A new addition: all about possessive apostrophes

General knowledge of how to use possessive apostrophes correctly is shaky. If you have trouble working out whether the apostrophe goes before or after the 's', this new guide will teach you two rules to get it right every time.

Simple rules for using possessive apostrophes (PDF, 1.68MB)

Three rules for selecting the correct 'its' (PDF, 302KB)

Coming articles:

  • An insight into the skills of the proofreader.
  • Establishing in-house style for documents and publications.

A favourite cartoon

This great cartoon has been decorating our office for a few years, copied from another copy at another office. We finally did a Google search to find the cartoonist, Eve Corbel, and she has generously allowed us to reproduce it in our library.

Reproduced with permission of Eve Corbel, Geist magazine, www.geist.com

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