#apostrophe s

[trolledu]

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İngilizce İyelik Ekleri: 's ve s' Kullanımı Detaylı Anlatım

İngilizce'de sahiplik ve aitlik bildiren 's (apostrophe s) ve sadece ' (apostrophe) kullanımı hakkında detaylı rehber. Tekil, çoğul, özel isimler ve diğer durumlar için kurallar ve bol örneklerle iyelik yapılarını öğrenin. https://www.fullofenglish.com/ingilizce-dilbilgisi/ingilizce-iyelik-ekleri-s-ve-s-kullanimi-detayli-anlatim/

[trolledu]

It's strange to think that a baby diaper is built to outlast its wearer.

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

Apparently I have a recognizable brand and it is Copy Editor because two friends sent me this from different accounts from opposite sides of the country and a third says he ALMOST sent it to me.

Listen it's really not hard:

Is the person biblical or mythological? Then they get the extra S after a possessive apostrophe

Are they just a person? Then just an apostrophe

So:

Zeus's rule of Olympus is chaotic at best

Jesus's disciples have all the best lines in JCSS

Kamala Harris' monochrome pantsuits have been weirdly exploited for queer representation

This new dude Walz should have no confusion because his name ends in Z.

Walz's blissfully dumb dog locked himself in the bedroom by accident and had to be rescued through the window

[sevdidntdie]

ok look. here is a brief explanation on how to use possessives in writing when dealing with words that end in the letter "s."

if the subject in question is possessed by a PERSON PLACE OR THING that ends in the letter "s," use " 's. " (i. e. Cas's face, Belarus's army, the walrus's tusks)

if the subject in question is possessed by a PLURAL of a PERSON OR THING that ends in the letter "s," use just " '. " (i. e. the Joneses' car, the classes' exams)

2a. note on PERSON OR THING that ends in the letter "s": when making these plural, use "es" (kisses, classes) unless there is some other plural (crisis to crises, octopus to octopi)

[notalisonyet]

Grammar Moment: A Quick History of “s’s”

English-speakers don’t like saying three S sounds in a row. We don’t much like having two in a row, actually, as in buses. Many, many people are convinced it’s wrong to add apostrophe-s to a word that ends in an S.

But there’s nothing incorrect about it.

I will pretend we all know that the way to make a singular word possessive is to add an apostrophe and an S: the dog’s bowl, the airplane’s wing, Judith’s smirk.

Language guide books and style manuals (like the venerable Chicago Manual of Style) used to promote a rule that when a singular word already ended in two S sounds, and you needed a possessive form, you added only an apostrophe. So the possessive form of Moses was Moses’ and not Moses’s. Just to be easier on the tongue.

In practice the bulk of us readers in English will only commonly encounter two such possessives: Moses’ and Jesus’. (There’s also Xerxes’, but how many people run across that?) So when applied correctly, the rule didn’t affect all that much.

Sadly, that particular rule got broadened out improperly to every other word ending in S, so people were (and still are) writing James’ instead of the correct James’s. (It isn’t that hard to say. Can you say buses? You can say James’s.)

A few years back, Chicago style and those who follow it ended the triple-S-sound exception and now believe singular words and names should take an apostrophe-S even when they already have two S sounds. So Jesus’s and Moses’s (and Xerxes’s) have become standard form. We have a single rule.

Is the word or name singular? Do you want to make it possessive? Add apostrophe-S.

(Okay, there are still a couple of exceptions: words like politics or economics or names that are technically singular but end with a plural word, like United States or National Academy of Sciences. All these take just the apostrophe, no additional S. Sigh.)

[apollocorner]

Why I use "'s" for the possessive form of all singular nouns, even those ending in "s"

Why I use “‘s” for the possessive form of all singular nouns, even those ending in “s”

While it is universal in the English language for the possessive form of plural nouns to be written with just a following apostrophe, there is a debate on whether just a following apostrophe, or a following apostrophe followed by the letter “s”, should be used to denote the possessive form of singular nouns whose final letter of the nominative form is “s”.

In 2007, the Arkansas State…

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[maureen-corpse]

AP style rules for possessives make me want to die