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Where should the apostrophe be for the singular and plural possessive forms of user? [closed]
My understanding of apostrophe usage for possessive forms of the word "user" is this:
Referring to a single user - user's.
Referring to multiple users - users'.
Is this correct? If not, what is? ...
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Plural of “uh-oh” and “oh-no”
Does the plural form of uh-oh and oh-no include an apostrophe? So is it "uh-oh's and oh-no's" or "uh-ohs and oh-nos"?
I've seen it both ways and cannot find a definitive answer anywhere.
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Apostrophe Usage with Arkansas [duplicate]
Currently, we are having an issue at work where we may not be able to tack on apostrophes to words programmatically, in order to make them possessive, because of certain edge cases; such as Arkansas' ...
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Apostrophes and s's [duplicate]
I always forget the rule about if something is possessive put 's at the end, for example "the sailor's hat". I know some people say to remember because it has a different meaning if it's plural (e.g. ...
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I'm trying to show ownership to a plural noun in parentheses
I'm drafting a lease document and have to state the following provision.
The Lessee(s) holds the Lessor and the United States harmless from any loss, liability or damages resulting from the ...
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What’s the plural of “Valentine’s”
If I want to form the plural of “Valentine’s” as a short form of “Saint Valentine’s Day” – where do I put the apostrophe(s)? Is it possible at all?
I believe that Valentines’, although the normal ...
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Do's and don'ts - wrong apostrophe? [duplicate]
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“Do’s” and “don’ts” or “do’s” and “don’t’s”?
I always see Do's and don'ts, but in my opinion it must be "Dos and don'ts", or is there any rule where there is an ...
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Apostrophe and plurals of abbreviations [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym?
I was in Middlesbrough yesterday and spotted:
CJ’s Cafe
So far, so good, I thought. A selection of the delights within ...
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Using apostrophes with plural and possession
We have something going to print today, but everyone in the office is arguing as to where to correctly place the apostrophe in the sentence (if at all!)
The sentence is:
Bring your event into the ...
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To apostrophe or not to apostrophe [duplicate]
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User’s Guide vs Users’ Guide
I am sorry if this is really obvious but I can't work out from Wikipedia if it's right to use one here. My English is terrible but I try:
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What’s the correct plural possessive of “kids”?
I know that children’s books is correct, but for some reason I want to say kids books, even though I know that it’s a plural possessive noun ending in an s.
A quick search on the web turns up Barnes ...
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How do I express possession of an item owned by enumerated groups of several individuals? [duplicate]
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“Nikki's and Alice's X” vs. “Nikki and Alice's X”
Preferred way to apostrophise in case of dual or multiple ownership by distinct ...
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User’s/Users’/Users Group [duplicate]
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“User's guide” vs. “users' guide”
If referring to a Users Group (meaning a group made up of multiple individual users who have some ...
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Use of lone apostrophe for plural?
I've been reading William Manchester's book "American Caesar", which is about Douglas MacArthur, and I found that he uses a strange convention for pluralizing the family name. When talking about the ...
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Usage of apostrophe in “baker’s dozen”
In the phrase “baker’s dozen”, why does the apostrophe indicate possession of a (single) baker? Shouldn't it indicate possession of all bakers in general? Shouldn’t it be “bakers’ dozen”?
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Possessive plural of country? [closed]
Is it countries? Country's?
I originally thought the latter but this would suggest a singular country?
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Apostrophe before or after s? [closed]
In the sentence:
The author was greatly in love with Annabel Lee and described their love for each other as greater than anyone elses’.
Does the apostrophe go before or after the s in else?
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Plurals of acronyms, letters, numbers — use an apostrophe or not?
When I was in high school back in the 1970s, I was taught that to make a plural of an acronym, a letter, or a number, one should add an apostrophe and "s". Like I would have written this sentence, ...
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Can an “s”-form plural follow an “s”-form possessive?
This is best described via an example. I believe this might be technically correct, but sounds clumsy:
You need to look through all the chemicals shelves
There are multiple shelves, of type ...
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How do you make a word like “parent(s)” possessive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in s?
"Please submit your and your parent(s)' federal tax returns." Is the possessive of "parent(s)'" correctly ...
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Members’ Benefits vs Member’s Benefits [duplicate]
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Where should the apostrophe go in the word “beginners” in “beginners guide”?
I’m currently developing a site which has a membership scheme which ...
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Should it be “one”, “ones” or “one's” in a company's slogan?
I saw a tow truck with a slogan running the length of the bed.
Were the "ones" to call
What drew my attention was the past tense without an apostrophe, and the inappropriate use of quotation ...
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What is the correct syntax for a plural possessive of a word already ending in s? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in s?
Before you vote to close as a duplicate, note that these two questions deal with similar issues to this, but none ...
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How do I correctly pluralize acronyms? [duplicate]
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What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym?
Plural form of the acronym LASER
I was just writing an email asking a supervisor about downloading multiple ...
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Is the word “women's” a typo?
My browser's spellcheck says it is, but I can't figure out why. Is Firefox sexist?
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Apostrophes and caps in Happy Mother’s Day / Happy Mothers’ Day
So, I’m writing this as it is Mother’s (or maybe Mothers’) Day today, and I was wondering what would be a correct way to write that.
Should the apostrophe come be between the r and the s, or after ...
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Why did they spell it “URL’s”?
I was reading this documentation file of some software and note the plural spelling of this abbreviation is “URL’s”. Why isn’t it “URLs”?
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How do you show possession with the word “year” (“year's” vs.“years”)?
So, I develop for a company that does workplace-surveys. And one of our report-formats has just been translated into English. And with it a description on how to read the reports. This description ...
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Is an apostrophe with a decade (e.g. 1920’s) generally considered “incorrect”?
I typically don’t use an apostrophe with plurals in any situation, but I always assumed that the use of an apostrophe in constructions like acronyms:
Forty BA’s were given out to students this ...
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Seasonal parsing: “enjoying Re-run's of Christmas' past” — fragment, pluralization and ownership
enjoying Re-run's of Christmas' past
I just saw this posted as a Facebook status update, and it has boggled me as to how it should be considered or how it should be rewritten. If re-runs belong ...
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Apostrophe in “beginners guide”
In the phrase beginners guide to …, where should the apostrophe go?
Beginner’s Guide to […]
Beginners’ Guide to […]
In my particular case, this is the title for a presentation so there are ...
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Is “ ’s ” ever correct for pluralization?
A relatively modern dictionary (I don’t know which one, because we’ve cut out the pages and used them as wallpaper in our bathroom, but I know it’s less than 20 years old) indicates that R’s is one ...
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Plural name apostrophe position
At my English lesson the native English speaker couldn’t tell what is correct and promised to search it for us!
He told us that if James is one person then we should write
James' Book
but if ...
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Is it common for place names to lose their possessive apostrophe?
On a road trip, my wife and I drove by Kings Dominion. We debated whether this should in actuality be King’s Dominion. It seemed that it ought to be possessive, or possibly plural possessive.
Upon ...
