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Jack112 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Apostrophe s

Hi,

When do I use Apostrophe s? Should I be using it for all the words or just the last one? I see #2 in the newspaper a lot and is this correct?

1. This is Susan's, Peter's, and Paul's car.
2. This is Susan, Peter, and Paul's car.

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Since they seem to share the same car, I would use an apostrophe only before the s of the last noun. This is Susan, Peter, and Paul's car. The car belongs to all of them.

— RandomGuy

  • Since they seem to share the same car, I would use an apostrophe only before the s of the last noun.
  • This is Susan, Peter, and Paul's car.
  • The car belongs to all of them.
  • These are Susan's, Peter's, and Paul's cars.
  • They each have their own car.
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Since they seem to share the same car, I would use an apostrophe only before the s of the last noun.

This is Susan, Peter, and Paul's car. The car belongs to all of them.
These are Susan's, Peter's, and Paul's cars. They each have their own car.

This might be more of a style than a ru
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Probably try to avoid repetitive genitives, with "This car belongs to Susan, Peter and Paul."
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#2. All three people own the same car. They share it. It belongs to Susan, Peter and Paul as a group.

#1.This one is not correct. You can say this: These are Susan's, Peter's, and Paul's cars.
There are three cars, one is Susan's, one is Peter's and one is Paul's.
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