“1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding ‘s.”

Strunk, William and E. White. The Elements of Style. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

“There was a Hungarian adventurer who had astonishing beauty, infallible charm, grace, the powers of a trained actor, culture, knowledge of many tongues, aristocratic manners.”

Nin, By. Delta of Venus. New York: Pocket Books, 1990.

“Creative visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create what you want in your life.”

Gawain, Shakti. Creative Visualization. New York: Bantam Books, 1982.

“My mother is packed and ready to move.”

Carver, Raymond. Elephant and Other Stories. London: Collins Harvill, 1989.

“Those beautiful days when the city resembles a die, a fan and a bird song or a scallop shell on the seashore – goodbye, goodbye, pretty girls, we met today and will not ever meet again.”

Carver, Tess. A New Path to the Waterfall. City: The Harvill Press, 1990.

“Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking bak it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce.”

Yates, Richard. The Easter Parade. New York: Picador USA, 2001.

“All Miss Price had been told about the new boy was that he’d spent most of his life in some kind of orphanage, and that the gray haired “aunt and uncle” with whom he now lived were really foster parents, paid by the Welfare Department of the city of New York.”

Yates, Richard and Richard Russo. The Collected Stories of Richard Yates. New York: Picador, 2002.

“I am sitting over coffee and cigarets at my friend Rita’s and I am telling her about it.”

Carver, Raymond. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.

“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995.

“It was the middle of August and Myers was between lives.”

Carver, Raymond and William Stull. Call If You Need Me. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.