The word "kids" is a standard plural word, so the possessive apostrophe goes after the s. One kid: It's my kid's room. Two kids: It's the kids' room. It's the singular words that end in an s, x, ch,

Hi VT You wrote that well. Here are my corrections/suggestions: (a) One Saturday night, Susan stayed alone at home. She was reading some books in her room before going to bed. (b) Suddenly, Susan saw an ugly monster coming out by / at the

No. A 'thank you' is a colloquial compound noun, like lounge room or room heater, and the 's' in 'thank yous' signifies the plural, so no apostrophe is used. Apostrophes are used to express possession e.g. Bob's car; or

"All 's I know is, she was drunk as a skunk!"  (That's not really a plural, if we're thinking about the same thing.) Avangi, I don't understand why you have used the apostrophe s with "all". Thanks CJ, for your

Mancroft wrote: What should the correct acronym for Frequently-asked Questions be? Presumably, frequently-asked is an adjective and so should be hyphenated. So, which is correct? F-AQs F-aQs but surely not FAQs and certainly not FAQ's with the

Apostrophe ( ' ) The apostrophe is used when leaving out a letter or number in a contraction, e.g. can't, wouldn't. The apostrophe is used for omitted letters, e.g. rock 'n' roll, and for omitted numbers, e.g. the class of '72, the

can Freddy, did you forget the topic of the question ... It is in the first line of text preceded bythe As usual, English has an exception here. Proper names, such as Yeats's (but not Moses'). Sigh. AM That isn't an example of an

The apostrophe goes after the S only when it is a plural word that ends in S. The academy's main building....or even better..... The main building of the academy is located....

(child) singular.......children (plural) Since it is not a plural word that ends in S, we use the 's.......children's toys. Remember that children never has an S on the end in plural form, the word children is already in plural form.

Businesses is correct. It is the plural of Business. The apostrophe is used to show that something belongs to something else (It's called the Genitive case). Normally (though not always) the apostrophe or apostrophe + s are followed by a noun.