1 Form the plural. 2 Add an apostrophe. 3 If the ending is now s', stop. 4 Otherwise add s. boy 1 boys 2 boys' 3 STOP Answer: boys' person 1 people 2 people' 3 No s'. 4 people's Answer: people's child 1 children 2

Hi ccrellin, and welcome to English Forums, Another one that always confuses me is "its" as in "it doubled its capacity to seat 20,000". Normally with nouns we indicate belonging with an apostrophe, for example "the

Hi All, I think that the reason people get this wrong (i.e. "cd's") is because they think in terms of abbreviation just as "phone" should really be written " 'phone" to indicate the missing "tele".

Dear friend, for singular names ending in -s, the regular genitive is usual: Davis's , Charles's . Sometimes these nouns are treated as if they were plural: Davis' , Charles' - in this case the ending -s is still pronounced even

Hi, for this qusetion i would have to use and apostrophe s how would i write out money belonging to mickey Mickey's money You are interested in using an apostrophe correctly, yet you do not seem interested in using capital

for this qusetion i would have to use and apostrophe s how would i write out money belonging to mickey

Hi Anon Part of your difficulty might be due to the fact that you have some typos/errors in your sentences. I'm at your dad ' s house. Are you Brittany's brother. You add an apostrophe and an S ( 's ) to the end of a noun to

When we say 'his being' we are using 'his' as a possessive pronoun. This is tantamount to saying Bob's doing... (An apostrophe here indicates possessive). And whenever one uses such a construction, although one should try to

You never use an apostrophe to form the plural of a common noun. It's babies. (I'd also make "war" singulal as a non-count noun.)

No apostrophe is needed as got is a verb. The title is ungrammatical or informal - whichever word you prefer. In correct English: The Lakes Have Got Talent. CB