The use of the apostrophe has nothing to do with the genitive in your example. It is common to add an apostrophe before a plural ending (s) if the s is added to an abbreviation, a numeral or anything that is not a noun. In your case this is simply

Dear experts How to abbreviate the plural form of the word 'century', that is, 'centuries' ? For example, is this correct: '18th-19th cc." ? I'm asking this question because I'm not able to find any abbreviation

I never use an apostrophe with these abbreviations, unless it would cause confusion without the apostrophe, e.g. when the abbreviation is a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. So the following plural forms look OK to me: CDs, DVDs,

Hi, Movies that don't take football seriously and also have/has caucasian ppl protraying african ppl are not good. Supposed to use have/has/or had? 'Movies' is a plural subject, so say 'have'. You need to add

"ad" and "TV" (assuming you mean "television") do not need dots. I can't think of any instance when I would want to pluralise an abbreviation ending in a dot. If this situation did arise then I would

Thanks. What about those abbreviations with "dots"? How do I make the dotted words plural? For example, "ad." and "T.V.", not "ad" and "TV" .

Hello, I want to know how to write plural forms abbreviations. advertisement -> advertisements Are these correct? ad. -> a ds. or ad.s ? watch a T.V. -> watch T .V.s ?

What do you mean by MS first explain that? It's not MS. It's Ms. The abbreviation Ms is used to mean Miss or Mrs. when you don't know whether the woman you are addressing is married (Mrs.) or not (Miss). CJ

Please, please, please -- if you are asking people to take the time to help you with English, please take the time to spell out words like "you are" instead of using abbreviations like "u r"!!!

Hi. 1. Which of these is what explains/shows what the abbreviation "etc" can be used for? and so on and others 2. Should this sentence be in the singular or plural verb? Every boy and girl needs/need to (should)