By Apostrophes, Possessives

I am having some difficulties with a sentence a colleague of mine has within a paper they have recently written. It involves rules regarding Plural Possessives in conjunction with Prepositional Phrases. Adlerian therapy is tailored to meet the needs of today’s practitioner techniques of ...

Mr Jones's briefcase or Mr Jones' briefcase?During my high school, I was taught to use the second one. Later, I learnt that both are acceptable. Source 1:Some writers will say that the -s after Charles' is not necessary and that adding only the apostrophe (Charles' car) will suffice to show...

Hi, I think there are different classifications to the general term called the 'genitive'. These are few things I know about the genitive: There is the possessive genitive where the notion of possessiveness is manifested. Then, there is a classifying genitive where the part in apostrophes is...

I was about to point out the same thing. According to some grammarians, there are no genitives in English. According to others they are the same as possessives. According to others they are only possessives formed with apostrophes. my, your, our Mary's, the students', a friend's A...

In your other example, parents is plural, therefore the apostrophe is not followed by another "s". As you say, it is because it is a name ending in "s" that the argument can go both ways. If there is more than one Jones, then the form becomes "Joneses' dog"

From The Elements of Style:Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write, Charles's friend Burns's poems the witch's malice Exceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names ending in -es and -is, the possessive...

Hi, Thanks for your answer. But I have to confess that I'm too confused about it now, once I always heard: " the boy's mother" or the "students' school" for example. So could you please, explain me the reason why for 'the husband of the actress' , I have to write = the actress's husband , and...

Hi, Does it always have to be apostrophe and "s" when not in plural? Couldn't you say "James' car" without adding "s"?In his book, Practical English Usage, Michael Swan notes that 'Singular names ending in -s usually have possessive forms in 's, especially in BrE. However, with many older,...

Feebs11 wrote:"in their early 30s" is correct. The apostrophe turns it into a possessive of 30.I am surprised that a porn shop is providing coffee and buns. This may be a difference between English as it's writen in the UK and America. According to my reference from college (Simon &...

"in their early 30s" is correct. The apostrophe turns it into a possessive of 30.I am surprised that a porn shop is providing coffee and buns.