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Statutory Rules and guidance Example words
requirements (non-statutory) (non-statutory)

Possessive The apostrophe is placed after the girls’, boys’, babies’,
apostrophe with plural form of the word; –s is not children’s, men’s,
plural words added if the plural already ends in mice’s
–s, but is added if the plural does not (Note: singular proper
end in –s (i.e. is an irregular plural – nouns ending in an s
e.g. children’s). use the ’s suffix e.g.
Cyprus’s population)

Homophones and accept/except,
near-homophones affect/effect, ball/bawl,
berry/bury,
brake/break, fair/fare,
grate/great,

groan/grown,
here/hear,
heel/heal/he’ll,
knot/not, mail/male,
main/mane,
meat/meet,
medal/meddle,
missed/mist,
peace/piece,
plain/plane,
rain/rein/reign,
scene/seen,

weather/whether,
whose/who’s

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