In this film, Evil Eileen’s birthday celebrations become an explosive story when she meets Rachel Reporting at the zoo and they learn about possessives. This clip is from the series Grammar for ...

Apostrophes are those little floating comma shapes that denote contractions and possessives, and that sometimes even make ...

All the examples of possessives that you quote are quite plausible and sound quite natural. But I would also agree with the advice 'when in doubt, use the of the construction.' In general there is ...

Many languages indicate ownership of something by using the word "of." But English often uses an apostrophe and S, sometimes ...

By the late 1970s it was larger than the GNPs of France and Britain combined. Apostrophes indicate possessives and contractions but not plurals. Caution: its, your, their, and whose are possessives ...

However, use an apostrophe with single letters to avoid misreading (mind your p’s and q’s; she got two A’s on her report card). possessives: Most possessive singular nouns (including singular nouns ...

There are two general instances in which apostrophes are used: contractions and possessives. Contractions are the shortened forms of two words, such as “didn’t” for "did not" and “they ...

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I wrote “our sycamore” above, but great trees defy possessives. They are home to bees and birds and squirrels and ants and countless other critters. They are often older than all of us, older than the ...

“it’s” and possessives.) Her first job after graduation brought her to The Albuquerque Tribune as a health and medicine reporter. She knew next to nothing about the science and medical ...

The rationale for keeping legalese is that it’s an extremely precise lawyerly argot that conveys specific, clear-cut meanings, but that’s false. What’s the rule on forming a singular ...