Is Christmas a possessive pronoun

Answers.com ^ | 9/21/23 | Katherine Fexer Gordon ∙

[DallasBiff]

The word Christmas is not a pronoun, it is a noun, a singular, proper, abstract noun or an adjective. The possessive form is Christmas's. Example uses:

Noun: This Christmas we will be visiting my grandmother.

Adjective: We will bring her some Christmas gifts.

Possessive noun: Christmas's weather was mild this year.

[DallasBiff]

With modern day pronoun fascination by radical liberal democrats, I wonder what Santa puts in stockings that say they/them, probably a lump of coal.

Have fun and Merry Christmas.

[Jamestown1630]

Whatever happened to a noun ending in ‘s’ simply ending in the apostrophe to signify possession?

‘Thomas’ eyes are blue’.

[Red Badger]

It is also an irregular verb:

We will be Christmassing in Vermont this year............

[FirstFlaBn]

Add a superfluous ‘s’ to balance out all the ignoramuses who think plurals get an apostrophe. Can’t risk a distortion of the gravitational flux.

[BipolarBob]

Proper English is racis'. In Ebonics we teach:

Wuz da nite befo Crimmus
An' all ower de hood;
Ereybody wuz' sleepin'
Dey wuz sleepin' good.

[Jamestown1630]

Here it is in Cajun:

https://raininlafayette.blogspot.com/2011/12/twas-night-before-christmas-all-tru-de.html

[Larry Lucido]

The weather today is quite Christmassy.

[Jamestown1630]

Somehow, that looks very wrong.

[bigbob]

My pronouns are Who. Givesashit.

[Svartalfiar]

s’ is normally used to convey plural possessive. So your example implies there are multiple ‘Thoma’, all of whom have blue eyes.

[Jamestown1630]

It’s a debated issue, but the form I suggested has long been used, and is still recommended in most style books.

[FlyingEagle]

Correction:

Christmas’

That is the plural possessive.

[HIDEK6]

A singular noun is made possessive by an apostrophe and an “s.”

A plural noun is made possessive by an apostrophe.

You are confusing the final “s” in “Christmas” as a pluralizing “s” rather than its being part of the noun.

The correct way to pluralize a singular noun ending in “s” is to add an apostrophe and an “s.”

I call this “Jesus’s Rule.”

[HIDEK6]

Never verb nouns.

[HIDEK6]

It’s a debated issue, but the form I suggested has long been used, and is still recommended in most style books.

You are mistaken. Please cite the style books wherein this error appears.

[Jamestown1630]

No, I’m not.

Maybe it’s my age, and style has changed, but I was taught in school to do it as I posted. (It stuck, perhaps, because my own name ends in ‘s’.)

https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/whats-the-rule-for-doing-a-possessive-after-the-word-s/

https://grammarist.com/punctuation/apostrophes-with-names-ending-in-s/

(I’ve never heard prayer ended in church with ‘In Jesus-es name’.)

[Red Badger]

ISWYDT................

[HIDEK6]

My source is “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White. This document was published in 1918 and has long served as the bible of journalistic style.

A person as old as you should be familiar with it.

You can google the book by that name. It is 51 pages long.

The rule, stated on page 11 reads, “Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding ‘s. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.”

I find this rule to be clear and unambiguous.

The same rule can be found in the Merriam-Webster pamphlet covering the same subject matter.

[Jamestown1630]

Suit yourself.

But you may want to argue with all of these people; I doubt they’re all ignorant of correct spelling and punctuation:

https://www.eldersdigest.org/en/2014/2/in-jesus-name,-amen

https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/in-jesus-name-amen/

https://justdisciple.com/christian-prayer-endings/

https://biblemesh.com/blog/why-do-we-pray-in-jesus-name/

[j.havenfarm]

Unfortunately I must agree that adding the “s” is the predominant form these days, though it is superfluous and awkward. The contrary, alas,
Minority, view is stated in countless places
https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/centers/writing/seven-sins-of-writing/4