[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Potironette

English, I'm not good at, at all. Whenever I write essays I get lots of points off for awkward sentences and bad grammar D:.

Random questions:
When I write about possession, do I write "Columbus' ships" or "Columbus's ships"?

...What's MARC 21?

If you have spare cash, pick up the book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves." Wonderful book, and funny. All about grammar. My specialty is literature over language but I can function well enough.

I believe that case is simply the version of English you are using. British English uses "Columbus' ships" and American English is typically with the repeated s. It doesn't hurt to ask your teacher what they might prefer. I usually don't use the extra s but I usually lean towards British English. Canadian English is generally a mix of the two, and I've seen both.


MARC 21 is the coding language for library catalogues, or that's the easiest way to think of it, for me. It's a record set that the computer reads to display what you would see in a library catalogue entry. Looks like this.


...edited for bad typing.