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Is it my parent's house or my parents' house? Except for a child custody matter, where one parent's rights might be called into question, I am going to say that we use this word in the plural. We d...

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...

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. ......

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...

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...

When words showing measurement, value, distance, amount are used with an s on the end and they are in front of a noun, use an apostrophe s for singular and just an apostrophe for plural. ...one w...

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...

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...

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...