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Bsmart Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Barclays - Help


I am writing a document about Barclays Bank. I would like to talk about investments the bank has made. However, I am having some issues with the apostrophe. Is it:

Barclays’ Investments

Barclays Investments

Or Barclays’s investments

I guess it makes it more complicated as the brand name Barclays Bank is grammatically incorrect.
  

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Hello, bsmart-- and welcome to EF. Barclays Bank is not grammatically incorrect, because there was more than one member of the Barclay family involved. As for your first question: Barclays’ investments seems to me to make the most sense, though since the plural noun has become the name, a case may be made for Barclays’s investments as well.

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  • Hello, bsmart-- and welcome to EF.
  • Barclays Bank is not grammatically incorrect, because there was more than one member of the Barclay family involved.
  • As for your first question: Barclays’ investments seems to me to make the most sense, though since the plural noun has become the name, a case may be made for Barclays’s investments as well.
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Hello, bsmart-- and welcome to EF.

Barclays Bank is not grammatically incorrect, because there was more than one member of the Barclay family involved.

As for your first question: Barclays’ investments seems to me to make the most sense, though since the plural noun has become the name, a case may be made for Barclays’s investments as well.
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