By Abbreviations, Possessives

Actually, the possessive would be "ninteen ninties'" because you're talking about a possessive of the plural form, the decade is constituted by all of the years in total. So the abbreviated form of the possessive should be 1990s' - with the apostrophe after the s, just...

Hello fooladder, welcome to the forums. Obvioulsy, with the possessive, you use the apostrophe. It was a popular tune sometime back in the early 1990s. He has 1990's biggest hit record. (Obviously, a possessive.) EDITED for clarity -by this I mean the one year, 1990. He was the...

I think the p's and q's argument is most salient here. The apostrophe is used for the sake of clarity. While conventionally used for the possessive, the apostrophe is also used to indicate vernacular omissions and contractions, such as in the cases of "Ol' Dirty ***" or...

Hi, For some it is a dream, for you its a dream come true Incorrect or for some it is a dream, for you it's a dream come true Correct I generally get confused when to use its or it's kindly help me for this. Its is a possessive adjective, eg the cat licked its paws. It's is an abbreviation...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

Disclaimer : The comments below are purely my opinion based on what I was taught, however I may be wrong --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Guest,your sentence doesn't require any apostrophes as all the words you...

What is proper? We saw Dad and Mom's new boat. (YES!) We saw Dad's and Mom's new boat (Wrong!) Joint possessives In the case of joint possession, i.e., when two or more people own something together, place the apostrophe or apostrophe s (‘s) only after the...

Hi CJ, There are two schools of thought on this. I think Chicago Manual of Style (which I don't have with me at the moment) advocates for NOT having the apostrophe. I try to leave it out unless the abbreviation itself has some bizarre capitalization in which some of the letters are caps and...

This is a question of style, not grammar, so there will not be a prescriptive answer. I just looked in Chicago and couldn't find an answer. My suggestion would to rewrite - This letter is in reply to the inquiry sent by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Or, skip the abbreviation if...

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