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Plural Versus Possessive

When you are signing your holiday cards this year for your family, be sure you do not add an apostrophe to your name. You are a group of people; you want the plural of your name; you are not indica...
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Abbreviations and the Past Tense

When you have an abbreviation that is used as a verb in the past tense, add just apostrophe d. ...He was ID'd immediately. ...The report showed that he had OD'd. For the -ing ending, use the full...
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Singular Possessive

Add apostrophe "s" to the singular form of the word to make it possessive -- without regard to pronunciation or spelling. This is the simplest and most consistent way to deal with these forms. ......
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The Plural and the Apostrophe of a Proper Name

When a proper name has the word "the" in front of it, it has to be plural. My husband and I are NOT "the Wells." We are "the Wellses." If you are talking about us, it is just plural; if you are tal...
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"Each Other" and "One Another"

There is a grammar principle here: Use each other with two; use one another with three or more. Remember that, when making a word possessive, everything in front of the apostrophe has to be a wor...
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Back from Alaska

Well, I must say the cruise to Alaska lived up to its glowing reputation. It was wonderful. I cannot tell you, however, how many mistakes we saw on the ship, at the hotel, et cetera. In the shelf...
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"Each other's" or "Each others' "??

I saw this in an article online today. Where does the apostrophe go? If you remember that everything in front of the apostrophe has to be a word, you know that it cannot be each others' because th...
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Plural Possessives

Remember the rule: When the plural form of a word ends in s -- most of them do -- add only an apostrophe to this PLURAL form of the word to make it possessive. So in order to have s apostrophe, the...
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Making "Yes" and "No" Plural

There are a couple of ways to make yes and no plural: ...yeses and noes... ...yes's and no's... I personally don't like the look of noes because I think it looks like a misspelled word -- maybe n...