<p>Apostrophe Answers</p><p>1. Because Pat can’t make up his mind, he changes his plans several times a day.</p><p>2. Fiona receives $10 from her parents if she gets all A’s and B’s on her grade report.</p><p>3. After we return from our month’s vacation, we’ll respond to all the mail and phone messages.</p><p>4. Our cat wants its food in a secluded area, whereas our dogs want theirs in the family room.</p><p>5. No one wants to live in a vegetative state, unable to eat, walk, or communicate.</p><p>6. Therefore, members of the family should be the ones to make the critical medical decision instead of the doctors.</p><p>7. The problem is that a doctor’s word should not be allowed to override the family’s decision regarding a loved one.</p><p>8. Because Sirkku put too many 0’s on the bill, the accounting clerk wrote a check for $100,000 instead of $1,000.</p><p>9. There’s never enough time to complete all of the homework assignments in Mr. Buchanan’s class.</p><p>10. Bonnie will buy her shirt in the children’s department because it’s less expensive than one from the women’s department.</p><p>11. She’s been loaning it out to analyze a stream of 0’s and 1’s coming from an organization called the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI.</p><p>12. SETI’s giant telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico scans space for signals. 13. SETI scientists hope that someday they will receive a signal from extraterrestrial life forms.</p><p>14. The telescope’s data contains both strong and weak signals, and there’s a huge amount of data to be analyzed.</p><p>15. The SETI labs don’t have a powerful enough computer to analyze all of the data quickly.</p><p>16. The scientists estimated that it could take hundreds of years to look closely at the weak signals on a less powerful computer.</p><p>17. The scientists considered the problem, and an idea of theirs solved it.</p><p>18. It’s now quite simple for a volunteer like my boss to download a screen saver that picks up data from the SETI telescope and analyzes it.</p><p>19. When my boss doesn’t need the computer to be doing work of hers, she lets it sift through the signals from space and report its analysis to SETI.</p><p>20. Maybe someday, she’ll be the one to help decode a message from space, and the SETI scientists’ work will change the way we look at the universe.</p>