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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:11:00 +0000

out of curiousity, will you let us read felicitys letter again some time? i seem to have missed it

By: Twilight-kun

Twilight-kun — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:59:45 +0000

Well…I THINK Centaurs could do the Macarena…

By: greatday4awalk

greatday4awalk — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:56:03 +0000

Awwwwww… I just started reading this comic. Is there any way I could see the letters anyways?

By: Silverwolf

Silverwolf — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:35:17 +0000

Paddington learns that centaurs can’t disco but they ROCK at DDR!

By: Brenan

Brenan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:36:10 +0000

Yeah, it means both, to be honest.

“Alexander’s Dan’s brother, you know”
and
“Alexander’s brother is Dan”

are both proper uses of the apostrophe.

By: bmonk

bmonk — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:15:09 +0000

The only case where a possessive does not have an apostrophe is in pronouns: the book’s cover, Alexander’s accomplishment, but its front, his head.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:19:49 +0000

Actually an apostrophe is used correctly for both possessive and contraction. As a contraction it can stand in for is (as in Alexander’s a nice guy) and for has (as in Alexander’s never been too bright).

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:41:57 +0000

Oh… and I didn’t see anything to say it’s WRONG to use it that way, either.

Maybe I don’t know how to formulate a search to bring up the right grammer rule.

And either way, authors write in their own style and in the voice of their characters, and are not beholden to all grammar rules of the written language when writing dialogue or narrative prose.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:29:15 +0000

As a contraction of “Alexander is”? That form of contraction has made it’s way into spoken English arguably through a “lazy tongue” or unintentional mis-use, but I think it is technically not “correct written English grammar,” if there is such a thing anymore.

I haven’t taken an English course in a long time, and my quick google searches have shown me that people at least WRITE that way, but I can’t fiind anywhere that says it’s PROPER to write that way.

By: Nacome

Nacome — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:53:45 +0000

Nooo!! I missed yesterday’s letter! T-T
I’m so emo now.

But watching centaurs attempt to do all those dances would be incredibly amusing.