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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Do you use a possessive apostrophe after a parentheses apostrophe?

I am writing about the foliage of a particular variety of petunia! The name of the petunia needs to be in parentheses. Do I need to put a second apostrophe after the apostrophe of the parentheses?!
Petunia 'Sparklers' foliage is unusual or Petunia 'Sparklers'' foliage is unusual.
Please help!!
  

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I see no parentheses anywhere and I see only one apostrophe. If you are looking to put an apostrophe after the closing single inverted comma, then it is OK punctuation-wise, but of course it is a little hard to decipher, and since a flower is an inanimate object, which normally does not take the Anglo-Saxon possessive anyway, I suggest that you recast for better style: The foliage of Petunia 'Sparklers' is unusual.

— Mister Micawber

  • I see no parentheses anywhere and I see only one apostrophe.
  • If you are looking to put an apostrophe after the closing single inverted comma, then it is OK punctuation-wise, but of course it is a little hard to decipher, and since a flower is an inanimate object, which normally does not take the Anglo-Saxon possessive anyway, I suggest that you recast for better style: The foliage of Petunia 'Sparklers' is unusual.
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I see no parentheses anywhere and I see only one apostrophe. If you are looking to put an apostrophe after the closing single inverted comma, then it is OK punctuation-wise, but of course it is a little hard to decipher, and since a flower is an inanimate object, which normally does not take the Anglo-Saxon possessive anyway, I suggest that you recast for better style:

The foliage
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