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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 ...
An apostrophe is not an accessory. Here are examples of how and when to use an apostrophe—and when you definitely shouldn't. The post Here’s When You Should Use an Apostrophe appeared first on ...
An apostrophe's function as possessive or contractive can depend on the grammatical context: We rehearsed for Friday's opening night. (We rehearsed for the opening night on Friday.) We rehearsed because Friday's opening night. (We rehearsed because Friday is opening night. "Friday's" here is a contraction of "Friday is".)
This list of rules for the long s is not exhaustive, and it applies only to books printed during the 17th to early 19th centuries in English-speaking countries. [1] Similar rules exist for other European languages. [1] Long s was always used ("ſong", "ſubſtitute") except: Upper-case letters are always the round S; there is no upper-case long s.
“The rule is simple: If you say the S, spell the S,” he argued. ... names ending in S — such as Jesus or Moses — often was simply the name itself with no apostrophe or additional S ...
Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime: Inch, Second ® Registered trademark symbol: Trademark symbol ※ Reference mark: Asterisk, Dagger: Footnote ¤ Scarab (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign: section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' Pilcrow; Semicolon: Colon ℠ Service mark ...
For plural nouns that do not end in s, add an apostrophe-s, for example, children's, not childrens'. Kaldari 20:33, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC) Nearly there, methinks. Three points: 1. Reword to say "the general rule is that where the s is pronounced separately, add an apostrophe and as s". Then the first bullet point of exceptions to the rule becomes a ...
Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. [1] English punctuation has two complementary aspects: phonological punctuation, linked to how the sentence can be read aloud, particularly to pausing; [2] and grammatical punctuation, linked to the structure of the sentence. [3]