In Apostrophes^x, Possessives^x

According to Swan ( Practical English Usage ): 'The apostrophe in a word like parents' does not change the pronunciation at all , But with singular classical (ancient Greek and Roman) names ending in s' , we sometimes pronounce a possessive 's even when it is not written: Oedipus' =...

Perhaps one of you sent me this, or perhaps I have subscribed to this service and forgotten the fact, but at any rate the following serendipitiously arrived in my mailbox this morning: Possessive vs. Attributive Nouns ************************************************* If you enjoy this...

The apostrophe is used with certain expressions related to time, distance and measuring. a few minutes' later (time) fifty miles' distance (distance) These examples are what I used to confirm my reasonings. You ae correct they are possessive. I hope this gives others a better reason...

My answer is minutes': it's (because minutes is not possessive and it's is short for it is.) Correct me if I'm wrong. It's welcomed...

As Taken from one of the site. Briefly, we can say that apostrophes have three uses: 1) To show possession in nouns We add an apostrophe and "s" after all singular nouns and after plural nouns that do not end in "s": Susan’s book; Pete’s dog; the children’s toys; the men’s room. ...

The Sleep-Well company makes beds. Its beds are very comfortable. "It's" is a funny word. Normally, the apostrophe means possessive. MountainHiker's beds are comfortable. But "It's" is a different animal. It means "It is". "It's" is a contraction for "it is". In the possessive...

With inanimate objects, we normally use *of* to show possession rather than an apostrophe *s*: The side of the car. My father's car. In the first sentence the subject of the sentence is car which is inanimate. In the second sentence father is the subject and that is animate. This is...

I'm confused whether to use apostrophe in the following examples: He will get an award of attorneys' fees. (Sometimes "attorney fees" is used interchangeably, hence my confusion of whether it's just the name of the fees or if it's possessive) OR He will get an award of attorneys fees....

Apart from this being a deeply sinister post (have the animal welfare people been informed? ), the use of "it's" is wrong. "It's" is ALWAYS a contraction of: "It is", never a possessive pronoun.

Thanks, Rommie, for the reply; but I'm still confused. The apostrophe makes it possessive. Whose appointment is it: mine or the doctor's? I must be missing something.