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…from the book Little Einsteins Animal Alphabetthat my daughter got for her birthday. This part of the book has not just one, but two apostrophe mistakes!
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…from the book Little Einsteins Animal Alphabet
#1 by Jered on April 22, 2009 - 7:30 pm
I see one mistake (rattlesnakes’), but what’s the 2nd one?
#2 by Jered on April 22, 2009 - 7:31 pm
Never mind. The two its were close enough together that I read it too quickly. I see the 2nd its now.
#3 by a frog named purl on April 29, 2009 - 7:13 pm
there are s’o many things’ wrong with thi’s picture.
#4 by Rebecca Pettigrew on April 29, 2009 - 8:40 pm
it has three apostrophe mistakes. Both its should be it’s. And… Rattlesnakes’ should be rattlesnake’s (the “a” before denotes a singular, not plural) and that’s an educational book… awesome
#5 by Anonymous on April 29, 2009 - 9:06 pm
Rebecca — the 1st “its” is correct.
#6 by Rhonda on April 30, 2009 - 12:28 pm
Einstein? Well, I guess he always said that he didn’t keep information in his brain that he could research. How sad that this is an “educational” piece.
#7 by Tom on May 1, 2009 - 3:10 pm
And surely a rattlesnake’s bite is venomous rather than poisonous?
#8 by Anonymous on May 3, 2009 - 5:56 am
The first its is correct. The two mistakes are the second its and the apostrophe in rattlesnakes.
#9 by Anonymous on May 28, 2009 - 5:22 pm
Its not smart to shake maraca’s when a rattlesnakes trying to stay a’sleep.
#10 by Mark Godfrey on June 12, 2009 - 12:44 pm
It's sad to see mistakes in children's books.