Hi there Mdtrainer! Although names ending in s or an s sound are not required to have the second s added in possessive form, it is preferred. Mr. Jones's golf clubs Texas's weather Ms. Straus's daughter Jose Sanchez's artwork

In addition, it is often better style to avoid the Anglo-Saxon possessive of a plural noun-- the apostrophe can be distracting. It is is often even better to adjectivize the plural noun: student learning ability.

It would never be boy's for a team. It would be boys' - with more than one boy, the apostrophe goes AFTER the S. However, for sports teams, the convention seems to be to use boys (or girls), without the apostrophe. (Interestingly,

The general rule is to add an apostrophe and -s to form the possessive case of most nouns, including plural nouns and proper nouns ending in -s. It is not wrong to write Mrs. Gowers's, or, to pronounce all of it. However, it is awkward to both

Dear friend, 1 I saw the advertismentin in a newspaper yesterday. I saw the advertisment in a yesterday`s newspaper. This is my correction. - Advertisement, and not *advertisment. Besides, there is no need to put a space after the apostrophe

Wrong. Everyone's means everyone IS. Just like it's means it IS. If you say its fur is wet (referring to a dog or whatever), you do not use and apostrophe. You only use an apostrophe in this situation: It's raining--It is

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 .

Hello JJ, Always the latter. All the best, MrP

Do you write: My mother’s- in- law Southern hospitality or My mother- in- law's Southern hospitality?

Use the apostrophe. I've also seen it as New Year Eve without the possessive at all, as in Christmas Eve.