Here in the United States, most people would write: Mr. Jones' house. The "correct" way is Mr. Jones's house. But many people (including most newspapers) feel that putting another "s" after the apostrophe looks funny.

When writing about the Commissioners Court is an apostrophe ever used? See example below - thank you! The Texas Constitution only allows the Commissioners Court of a County to hold an election for the issuance of General Obligation (GO)

The apostrophe in "M&M's" is actually part of the trademark, and comes from the following excerpt: "Forrest Mars, Sr., founder of the Mars Company, got the idea for the confection in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War

Ok, I deleted the other thread you started, since it's the same as this. Well, it depends if they are irregular or not. "Girl" is not irregular, so you can just add the 's': one girl, two girls. "Country" is not

Franklin ran elected for state Senate in New York City. When he ran for state senate , he would campaign in his car, giving ten speeches a day. This would have been a happy time for most couples but not for Franklin and Eleanor. This is where they

teacher i just change King's says to for example, would you plz shows to how to rewrite {King's says} in correct way? OK. Here are some sentences: This is Dr. King. Dr. King wrote a letter. My mother has blonde hair. The king sits on a

Hello: I work for an online editing and proofreading service. Please see my profile for more info. I won't revise your whole essay here, but I will show you the changes I would make in the first paragraph. I am choosing Franklin &

The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers : "Do not use an apostrophe to form the plural of an abbreviation or a number" and the examples include acronyms such as PhDs and VCRs. The Chicago Manual of Style : "So far as it can

Lewis filted: Incidentally, is it true that in the US, I should ... last sentence as ... in reality an elided "British)." ...? Yes, the American's have a very stupid idea of how to deal with punctuation around quotes. But some of us

He didn't write a lot of TZ, but he did write some, most were other peoples (where does the apostrophe go?) short stories It goes at the very end. alt.flame Special Forces "America lives in every heart of every man, everywhere, who wishes