Put in ABC Order girls, girl's, girls'?
These are always tricky. It has to do with the word as it is before the apostrophe:
girl's
girls
girls'
girl's, girls, girls'
girl's, girls' girls
To put "girls," "girl's," and "girls'" in ABC order, follow these steps:
1. Start by looking at the first letter of each word: "g," "g," and "g."
2. Since all three words start with the same letter, move on to the second letter: "i," "i," and "i."
3. Again, all three words have the same second letter, so move on to the third letter: "r," "r," and "r."
4. The fourth letters are also the same: "l," "l," and "l."
5. Finally, compare the fifth letters: "s," "s," and "'."
Now, as you compare the fifth letters, you will notice that "girls" and "girl's" both end with "s," while "girls'" ends with a "'." To determine the order, let's consider the alphabetical order of the characters:
"'" comes after all other alphabetical characters, so "girls'" should come after "girls" and "girl's."
Therefore, the words in ABC order would be:
1. girl's
2. girls
3. girls'
Note: When putting words in alphabetical order, we start by comparing the first letters, and if they are the same, we move on to the second letters and so on. The punctuation mark "'" is placed after all alphabetical characters in order to determine its position in the alphabet.