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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Possesion

Is it Maximus' crayons or Maximus's crayons?
  

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Hi, The latter. Clive

  • Hi, The latter.
  • Clive
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Hi,

The latter.

Clive
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While I believe that neither Christians nor Google should have the upper hand on English Punctuation, I find it interesting that in Jesus's name has 17,000 hits, while in Jesus' name has nearly 7 and a half million.
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Hi Philip,



Michael Swan notes that we sometimes add just the apostrophe if the name ends in ess, especially older and foreign names. His example is Socrates' . . .



I found 817,000 for "in the name of Jesus".

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