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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Possessive apostrophe after closed parentheses

Which sentence uses the possessive with the parentheses correctly?

The Abracadabra Foundation (AF)'s mission is to....

-OR-

The Abracadabra Foundation's (AF) mission is to...

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Top answer

The second one.

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A more elegant solution is this.
The mission of the Abracadabra Foundation (AF) is to . . . .
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AnonymousThe Abracadabra Foundation (AF)'s mission is to....-OR-The Abracadabra Foundation's (AF) mission is to...

It is not only a matter of elegance. Both are wrong approaches to the problem—which has no good solution. Recast as Clive has shown you.

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