Dumb apostrophe question - hers, her's or hers'

[manyeyedhydra]

Hi,

Can anyone help me with the correct apostrophe usage for this line:

"You're her's now," the nymph whispered in his ear.

I thought this was correct, but I'm getting the red underline of doom. Either MS spellchecker is being its normal idiot self or I need my morning caffeine.

thanks

 

[fieryjen]

No apostrophe at all.

Hers.




hers /hɜrz/
–pronoun
1. a form of the possessive case of she used as a predicate adjective: The red umbrella is hers. Are you a friend of hers?
2. that or those belonging to her: Hers is the biggest garden on the block. Hers are the yellow ones.

 

[manyeyedhydra]

Grr

MS Spellchecker 1-0 manyeyedhydra

more caffeine required

thanks

 

[ohsteve]

Your Spellchecker catches apostrophes? What version do you have?

 

[snoopercharmbrights]

Your Spellchecker catches apostrophes? What version do you have?

Every version I have ever used (certainly since Office95) has caught apostrophes misplaced in the middle of words, unless the user has hit <add to dictionary> in error for each wrong word. For example shi'ite is not recognised by MSWord 2003, but ba'athist is.

It is possible to remove words added to the dictionary by mistake. They are stored in a file called custom.dic in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Proof and this file can be edited with notepad.