How To Make Your Last Name Plural Learn how to make your last name (surname/family name) plural. You'll also learn how NOT to do it. Continue reading "How To Make Your Last Name Plural" Sep 14, 2023 Let's Diagram a Sentence Together (Hello, darkness, my old friend) Let's diagra...
Be careful—the last name is not plural by itself; it just ends in an s. Our post Apostrophes with Names Ending in s, ch, or z says, “To show the plural of a name that ends with a ch, s, or z sound, add es… To show plural possession of a name ending in s, ch, or z...
whereas RPgatecomes from the pluralgatu. Likewise,cleecomes from the old nominativeclea, whereas RPclawcomes from theobliquecases. The verbskeelandkembhave developed regularly from Old Englishcēlan“to make cool” andkemban“to use a comb,” whereas the corresponding RP verbscoolandcombcome from...
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Plural Possessive: Multiple Nouns If two or more nouns have ownership of another noun together, we would express that ownership by making only the last noun of the group possessive. Jack, Jill, and Jerry’s water pail is at the top of the hill.(The pail belongs to all of them.) ...
For a plural possessive noun, the apostrophe goes after the s. The students’ grades. That said, there are different schools of thought about what to do when a singular possessive noun ends in the letter s. Some say the apostrophe goes at the end, without adding an s. That’s James’...
The most common mistake in Christmas cards is making last names plural. If you want to send a card to the Johnson family, simply add an "s": The Johnsons ("Merry Christmas from the Johnsons!"). No apostrophe needed! Only use an apostrophe when you want to make a name possessive. ("...
Rule: Do not change the spelling of a name to make it plural. Instead, just add s. Examples: I visited the Murphys last weekend. We have two Zacharys in our office.” Why would the proper noun “County” be changed to “Counties” in this example? (I am dismissing the possessive fo...
Harrises. (Except, you know, Kamala’s husband is Doug Emhoff, so how often we’ll need to know how to pluralize “Harris” is up in the air.) Add the -es. It’s a “regular plural,” as the grammar books call it. Walzes. Another regular plural. Add the -es. ...
The pronoun "his" is correct because it is a possessive pronoun that matches the noun "Sam," which is a male name. "His" indicates that the book belongs to Sam. "Hers" is a possessive pronoun used for females, and "theirs" is a plural possessive pronoun used when something belongs to...