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71 questions linked to/from Which singular names ending in “s” form possessives with only a bare apostrophe?
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What does 's mean at the end of someone's name? [closed]
I understand 's means is and has, if 's is used at the end of a name, Does it mean is or has?Let's suppose Ex is a someone's name.
Ex is object -it can mean Ex is an object, totally incorrect
Ex has ...
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Achilles heel and Achilles tendon
Studying possessive apostrophes I have searched on ELU the questions correlated to this matter.
I have found the following: «What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in s?» and &...
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How do you decline nouns borrowed from languages with several categories for declining nouns (or none at all)?
English has two grammatical categories of number. One is the singular, and the other is the plural. Many nouns in English have different singular and plural forms. When nouns are borrowed from ...
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What is the possessive form of a singular noun ending with a plural s?
I would tend to treat a company name as singular and would therefore write the possessive form with 's. Now, my company refers to its international operations by placing the country name behind the ...
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Possessive and plural suffixes for proper nouns ending in -s [closed]
With a name that ends in -s, such as Travis or Lewis, where and when should you use -es, -'s, -s or just leave it alone to both pluralise, and to infer belonging to?
E.g., if the ball belongs to ...
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Which (if any) pedantically, grammatically, correct uses of the apostrophe will lead to a valid “NOUNs’s” construction?
The “<NOUN>s’s” construction comes up quite often in signs, at least in my neighbourhood.
I haven’t seen a legal use of the arrangement, though — and I wonder, is it at all possible?
If it ...
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Should an apostrophe be used with a z at the end of a word? [duplicate]
I know that if a word ends with an s then it should be made plural or possessive by use of an apostrophe with no extra s (e.g. "Thomas Harris' book was a riveting read." as opposed to "Gary Barlow's ...
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What to use after a word which ends with "se" to indicate possession? [duplicate]
I apologize for the seemingly simple question. I've searched on Google for this, but could not find anything.
The word "Recluse", meaning (noun) "a person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid ...
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Using the Chicago Manual of Style, do colons go inside or outside quotes?
I have the following sentence:
The program identifies particular “targets” and “identifiers:” the “targets” are people who are suspected of committing a crime.
Does the colon go inside the quotes ...
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efforts by organizations vs organizations' efforts
What is the difference between efforts by organizations and organizations' efforts ?
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What is the proper written plural possessive form for nouns that do not take -s, -es, or -ses upon pluralisation?
For most English words, the rules for construction of possessive forms are fairly simple.
Singular nouns are possessivised by adding -’s to the end (even if the word already ends with an S):1
cat → ...
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What’s the pronunciation of “ s’ ”? [duplicate]
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What is the pronunciation of the possessive words that already end in s?
“The Weasley twins’ friend, Lee Jordan, was doing the commentary for
the match.”
Do native ...
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Name, Conditions, and Pluralization of "Conscience' sake"
In some versions of the Bible, 1 Cor. 10:25 contains the phrase conscience' sake with no s following the possessive apostrophe of conscience, which does not end with s, as in:
New American Standard ...
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Apostrophe for words ending with the letter S [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in s?
When did it become correct to add an 's' to a singular possessive already ending in 's'?
I always had this difficulty ...
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Pronunciation of the possessive form of singular nouns ending in “s”
First, let me point out that this is a non-native English learner asking this question.
I know similar questions have been asked here (some of them found on this page), but (at least of those I saw) ...
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