Comments for The Final Touch http://finaltouchproofreadingandediting.com Your Message + My Writing Expertise = An Articulate, Credible, Professional Final Product Sat, 05 May 2012 16:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Heidi… and Fred Who?? by Heidi Mann http://finaltouchproofreadingandediting.com/2012/05/03/heidi-fred-who/comment-page-1/#comment-1910 Heidi Mann Sat, 05 May 2012 16:15:29 +0000 http://finaltouchproofreadingandediting.com/?p=1335#comment-1910 Thanks, Fred! I always look forward to seeing what you have up your sleeve to shake our country up a bit! :) --Heidi Thanks, Fred! I always look forward to seeing what you have up your sleeve to shake our country up a bit! :)

–Heidi

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]]> Comment on Heidi… and Fred Who?? by Fred Karger http://finaltouchproofreadingandediting.com/2012/05/03/heidi-fred-who/comment-page-1/#comment-1909 Fred Karger Sat, 05 May 2012 08:42:43 +0000 http://finaltouchproofreadingandediting.com/?p=1335#comment-1909 Heidi -really love your post. Thank you for that. More books and troublemaking to come. Fred Heidi –really love your post. Thank you for that. More books and troublemaking to come. Fred

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]]> Comment on Even Very Good Writers Get Confused! by Heidi Mann http://finaltouchproofreadingandediting.com/2010/04/21/even-very-good-writers-get-confused/comment-page-1/#comment-1823 Heidi Mann Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:22:09 +0000 http://finaltouchproofreadingandediting.com/?p=385#comment-1823 Thanks for writing! And what a great question! I would still hold firm and say it would be "each other's" because if you weren't dealing with a possessive but were just making a statement such as, "They all saw each other at the meeting," there would be no "s" at the end of "other." Like other plurals that are irregular -- think of "men," "oxen," "sheep," etc. -- to make the plural into a possessive plural, we don't add "s-apostrophe"; we add "apostrophe-s." So we have "men's clothing," "the oxen's yoke," "the sheep's pen," and "each other's gifts." Additionally, the Chicago Manual of Style (one of my go-to resources when I want to double-check something) states the following at <a href="http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch05/ch05_sec220.html" rel="nofollow">5.220</a>: "<strong>each other; one another.</strong> Traditionalists use each other when two things or people are involved, one another when more than two are involved." So, writers and editors who would be nit-picky would not opt to use "each other" in regard to a group of more than two. Of course, not everyone worries about being quite <em>that </em>precise! Again, thanks for your post! Hope to hear from you again! :) --Heidi Thanks for writing! And what a great question! I would still hold firm and say it would be “each other’s” because if you weren’t dealing with a possessive but were just making a statement such as, “They all saw each other at the meeting,” there would be no “s” at the end of “other.” Like other plurals that are irregular — think of “men,” “oxen,” “sheep,” etc. — to make the plural into a possessive plural, we don’t add “s-apostrophe”; we add “apostrophe-s.” So we have “men’s clothing,” “the oxen’s yoke,” “the sheep’s pen,” and “each other’s gifts.”

Additionally, the Chicago Manual of Style (one of my go-to resources when I want to double-check something) states the following at 5.220: “each other; one another. Traditionalists use each other when two things or people are involved, one another when more than two are involved.” So, writers and editors who would be nit-picky would not opt to use “each other” in regard to a group of more than two. Of course, not everyone worries about being quite that precise!

Again, thanks for your post! Hope to hear from you again! :)
–Heidi

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]]> Comment on Even Very Good Writers Get Confused! by Timotheus http://finaltouchproofreadingandediting.com/2010/04/21/even-very-good-writers-get-confused/comment-page-1/#comment-1822 Timotheus Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:52:55 +0000 http://finaltouchproofreadingandediting.com/?p=385#comment-1822 Concerning "each other's" or "each others'", what about when not just two people are being considered, but a group of people? For example, All the meeting attendees shook each others' hands as they entered the room. Is that correct? Thanks. Concerning “each other’s” or “each others’”, what about when not just two people are being considered, but a group of people? For example,

All the meeting attendees shook each others’ hands as they entered the room.

Is that correct? Thanks.

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