Question

question about apostrophe's?

Answer 1

Hi I have an assignment that asks me to remove or add neccesary apostrophe's from this paragraph. I already added some apostrophes that I found. Please review for me?

Deborah Sampson, who fought in the American Revolution, fulfilled her light infantryman duties pretending to be a private named Robert Shurtlieff. To anyone’s questions about where she was based, the private said, "West Point." Sampson's first enlistment lasted less than a day, but her second enlistment was different. It lasted until the wars end, when along with many others she was honorably discharged from the Continental army on October 23, 1783. Throughout her service, it was everyone’s opinion that she was an excellent soldier. Her officers’ reports on her were always good. Wounded twice, she outwitted the doctors' and returned to her unit undetected; but when she came down with "the fevers" a doctor discovered the secret that until then had been hers alone. (Many of the distinctions among illnesses that produce fevers--from typhoid to influenza-were not yet known; if patients had a high fever and its accompanying discomforts for very long, they were diagnosed as having "the fevers.") It’s no surprise that when her secret was finally revealed, her superior officers couldn't believe it. Dressed in women's clothes, she was escorted to separate quarters not by the military but by her superior officers. Many years later, at Paul Reveres' suggestion, she donned the uniform again and went on speaking tours to raise much-needed money for her family and to secure a monthly pension from the army she had once served.

Answer 2

Deborah Sampson, who fought in the American Revolution, fulfilled her light infantryman duties pretending to be a private named Robert Shurtlieff. To anyone’s questions about where she was based, the private said, "West Point." Sampson's first enlistment lasted less than a day, but her second enlistment was different. It lasted until the wars end, when along with many others she was honorably discharged from the Continental army on October 23, 1783. Throughout her service, it was everyone’s opinion that she was an excellent soldier. Her officers’ reports on her were always good. Wounded twice, she outwitted the doctors(remove) and returned to her unit undetected; but when she came down with "the fevers" a doctor discovered the secret that until then had been hers alone. (Many of the distinctions among illnesses that produce fevers--from typhoid to influenza-were not yet known; if patients had a high fever and its accompanying discomforts for very long, they were diagnosed as having "the fevers.") It’s no surprise that when her secret was finally revealed, her superior officers couldn't believe it. Dressed in women's clothes, she was escorted to separate quarters not by the military but by her superior officers. Many years later, at Paul Reveres' suggestion, she donned the uniform again and went on speaking tours to raise much-needed money for her family and to secure a monthly pension from the army she had once served.

I think that's all :)