By Apostrophes, Possessives

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.

I know this is a grammar board, but I figured this would be the place to inquire about the apostrophe. In a recent newspaper article in a local publication, the last name of a gentleman was Williams. Because his name ends in an "s" and it's a proper noun, shouldn't the possessive be "Williams's"...

1. Please tell me how can a person make the right decision when confronted those ajectives with a plural 's' ending? do phonics teaching obtained a first-class honors degree -- For this, I think it need (subjunctive OK since the context allude to the notion that this is sort of a recommendation...

Philip wrote: Cool Breeze wrote: Marius Hancu wrote:>Note: the possessive form of pronouns do not add an apostrophe.I'd re-write this, in order to remove the doubts on do/does: Note: the pronouns in possessive form do not add an apostrophe.Note: the possessive pronouns do not add an...

CalifJim wrote: the table leg / the leg of the table the table's leg LOL, I didn't choose that example at random, I once read it somewhere. I did a little search here, and find out it was GG who said that! Well, she also replied here, and her opinion is the same. I also read in some...

Mister Micawber wrote:No, the 's is almost exclusively reserved for human or near-human possessors. Car boot, townspeople, London train, and supermarket trolleys/trollies-- none of these need to appear in a possessive structure, but if they did, they would most probably be the boot of the car,...

Mister Micawber wrote:No, the 's is almost exclusively reserved for human or near-human possessors. Car boot, townspeople, London train, and supermarket trolleys/trollies-- none of these need to appear in a possessive structure, but if they did, they would most probably be the boot of the car,...

No, the 's is almost exclusively reserved for human or near-human possessors. Car boot, townspeople, London train, and supermarket trolleys/trollies-- none of these need to appear in a possessive structure, but if they did, they would most probably be the boot of the car, the people of the town,...

I do know that if I say "we are going to the Esposito's" to add an apostrophe because I am assuming that I mean the Esposito's house. Am I correct in assuming this? I would put the apostrophe after the s, because the Espositos' house belongs to both of them. But then you get into the problem...