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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

"S" with an apostrophe

Hello, I have one, maybe a little bit stupid question. It might sound silly, but I have never been thinking about such trivial issue. If we add letter "s" with an apostrophe to a noun to express that something is a property of somebody or something else, how do we use it, if singular form of the word ends with s, or in case of plural form?

Are the following examples correct?

the gas' emission
the gases' emissions
  

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the gas's emission the gases' emissions S-apostrophe ( -s' ) now is applied by most editors only to a few classical proper names: Jesus' disciples, Socrates' death .

— Mister Micawber

  • the gas's emission the gases' emissions S-apostrophe ( -s' ) now is applied by most editors only to a few classical proper names: Jesus' disciples, Socrates' death .
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the gas's emission
the gases' emissions

S-apostrophe ( -s') now is applied by most editors only to a few classical proper names: Jesus' disciples, Socrates' death.
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Mister Micawberthe gas's emissionthe gases' emissionsS-apostrophe ( -s') now is applied by most editors only to a few classical proper names: Jesus' disciples, Socrates' death.
Yes, and a few fixed forms like "for goodness' sake".
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