No, no apostrophe in the 1600s . The apostrophe is a possessive marker, not a plural marker. It is grudgingly approved only in a very limited number of cases which would otherwise look confusing, as in this: mind your p's and q's .

Type is too tiny...I see I missed the opening "I's." However, my grammar books accept the apostrophe after numbers made plural. Without is also correct, but with is perfectly fine.

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

I never use an apostrophe with these abbreviations, unless it would cause confusion without the apostrophe, e.g. when the abbreviation is a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. So the following plural forms look OK to me: CDs, DVDs,

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 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

Why would you? No, not to form a plural.

"Sharon Harrises' Why a double-quote at the beginning and a single quote at the end? The plural of Harris is Harrises . There is no apostrophe. ... to all the Sharon Harrises in the world. If you want the full name in quotes, you need

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.)

True, Anonymous! Pluralized acronyms should not use apostrophes. As an experienced English Tutor/Mentor, apostrophes are used in possession of & in contractions (i.e., Jane's cat won't eat fish.) To place an apostrophe after an acronym or