The same rule applies to singular possessive proper nouns. A proper noun is a noun that has to be capitalized, like a person’s name or a specific place. It doesn’t matter if the proper noun ends in an/s/or not. If you are only talking about one proper noun, add an apostrophe fo...
Proper Nouns (Names)We very often use possessive 's with names:This is Mary's car. Where is Ram's telephone? Who took Anthony's pen? I like Tara's hair.When a name ends in s, we usually treat it like any other singular noun, and add 's:...
Names of People that ends with sPossessive Nouns PhyllisPhyllis’s or Phyllis’ ThomasThomas’s or Thomas’ JonesJones’s or Jones’ Rule 5: Add an apostrophe s (‘s) or apostrophe (‘) to the end of acompound noun. Examples:
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1. Please tell me the proper placement of an apostrophe when making possessive a singular abbreviation that ends in an s. In other words, for “Office of Financial Services,” should it be writtenOFS’sorOFS’, or something different?
This gets slightly more complicated when the irregular noun ends in s in its plural form. These nouns would follow the same rule as any plural noun that ends in s, but you would only add an apostrophe to the end of the word. For example, the plural of knife is knives. The possessive...
Rule 1: In general, you form a possessive singular noun (both proper and common) by adding an apostrophe and the letterSto the end of the word. theflower’spetals Riley’scar That’s simple enough. It’s when the car belongs to a person named Chris, or we’re talking about the petal...
The possessive version of a singular noun is normally formed by adding an apostrophe followed by an “s.”“Sara” becomes “Sara’s,” and “cat” becomes “cat’s.” This also applies to irregular plural nouns that don’t end in “s” (e.g., “children’s toys”), to abbreviation...
These parts of speech are used to demonstrate a state or sense of possession to more than one object or human. There are two ways to make a plural possessive noun. First one is to add an apostrophe to the word that ends with letter s such as lakes', bikes' and second one is for ...
Generally when a proper name ends in s and looks like a plural, it’s at least acceptable to use just the apostrophe without an additional s. Netherlands’s definitely looks odd to me. Since Netherlands is an originally plural word treated as a singular, there’s an espec...