“How are you?” I asked.

A friend emailed me; I replied, asking, “How are you?”

“Oh, getting thing’s done,” was the response.

Gee, I didn’t realize that a thing could possess a done!

Most of my friends are writers. Still, occasionally, we lapse and throw in an apostrophe (or comma) where it doesn’t belong. This apostrophe (above) does NOT belong. My friend meant to use the plural (things) rather than the possessive (done belonging to a thing) or contraction (thing is).

BE WARNED that placing a comma or apostrophe in the wrong place could wreak havoc on your message!