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The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...
The only exceptions are the possessive cases of names ending in an "s"-sound as in Max' Vater, or "to prevent ambiguities" in all other possessive cases of names, as in Andrea's Blumenladen (referring to the female name Andrea, not the male name Andreas). The English/Saxon style of using an apostrophe for possession was introduced after the ...
For plural nouns that do not end in s, add an apostrophe and an s to form the possessive, for example, children's, not childrens'. Kaldari 03:19, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC) How about getting to the point more quickly, like this: "Possessives of words ending in 's' may be formed with or without an additional 's'." Either is generally acceptable within ...
Timothy Pulju, a senior lecturer in linguistics at Dartmouth College, said that until the 17th or 18th century, the possessive of proper names ending in S — such as Jesus or Moses — often was ...
It's a Biblical name and, within the U.S., has stayed in the top 25 names for boys since 1880. It's a tried-and-true, grounded name that's a classic for a reason. And you can call him Joey, which ...
For example, English uses a possessive clitic, 's; a preposition, of; and adjectives, my, your, his, her, etc. Predicates denoting possession may be formed either by using a verb (such as the English have) or by other means, such as existential clauses (as is usual in languages such as Russian). Some languages have more than two possessive classes.
This is a very strange page. It's based on a most peculiar concept the 'Saxon genitive' but fails to give a satisfactory definition — or even a comprehensible description. It seems to be about a spelling convention — the use of apostrophe+s to mark possessive singular case in writing. And yet much of it is about the morphology of English.
The first clear examples of the "his" genitive do not appear until c. 1250, when the "-s" ending had extended to all noun classes and NP-internal agreement had disappeared, making the "-s" ending the sole marker of genitive case. [3] The history of the "his" genitives in English is extensively covered in Allen (2008). [4]