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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 name...

GW, there are rules for these things (which unfortunately sometimes differ between AmE and BrE usage), and there is an over-riding guideline of clarity: if it gets too messy or iffy, reframe the sentence. With regard to your specific examples: The word 'and' can be used intermittently throughout...