By Plurals, Possessives

Re: Pizza's?

"Pizzas" is the plural: "We sell pizzas." "Pizza's" is a possessive: "The pizza's topping was delicious." "Pizza's" is also a contraction: "Pizza's my favorite food."

Re: Plurals of abbreviations - 1990's or 1990s

Actually, the possessive would be "ninteen ninties'" because you're talking about a possessive of the plural form, the decade is constituted by all of the years in total. So the abbreviated form of the possessive should be 1990s' - with the apostrophe after the s, just...

Re: Plurals of abbreviations - 1990's or 1990s

Hello fooladder, welcome to the forums. Obvioulsy, with the possessive, you use the apostrophe. It was a popular tune sometime back in the early 1990s. He has 1990's biggest hit record. (Obviously, a possessive.) EDITED for clarity -by this I mean the one year, 1990. He was the...

Re: Plurals of abbreviations - 1990's or 1990s

I think the p's and q's argument is most salient here. The apostrophe is used for the sake of clarity. While conventionally used for the possessive, the apostrophe is also used to indicate vernacular omissions and contractions, such as in the cases of "Ol' Dirty ***" or...

Re: Assignment of duty

It is almost impossible for anyone to edit this, since it is an official document. the only thing I might question is Article 2: Vice Minister's assigned duty, powers and duties. If you are talking about the duty of many Vice Ministers, it would be Vice Ministers' , to show plural...

Re: Plural Possessive of a Surname that does NOT end in 's'.

.The apostrophe after the plural Dittmans is correct for the possessive. However, it is an uncommon choice, and likely to be a source of continuing confusion (on the one hand) or nitpicking (on the other hand) for friends, customers and suppliers.I highly recommend Dittmann's Ahnapee Arts...

Plural Possessive of a Surname that does NOT end in 's'.

My parents are going into business, our last name is Dittmann, and they want to name their business "Dittmanns' Ahnapee Arts" (Ahnapee being a local township). Now, since the name is referring to both of them, and it would be posessive, would this above 's-apostrophe' be...

Re: Great driver's/drivers car...

You need to say "driver's car". There is only one car involved but you use the possessive because it's the "car of the driver" you are talking about.

Re: Plural vs. Singular

There are some words that are used to express plural concepts, like people and children. They act like singular words when forming the possessive, so they use 's.

Re: correct word

And how about the distinction between "friends" (plural) and "friend's" (possessive) -- is that also used only by the "really posh"? I am a native speaker of (American) English, and I find nothing unusual or overly formal about the word "sake." ...