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To: DallasBiff

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

‘Thomas’ eyes are blue’.


2 posted on 12/23/2024 9:52:25 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

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.


4 posted on 12/23/2024 9:59:30 AM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: Jamestown1630

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


10 posted on 12/23/2024 11:14:47 AM PST by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: Jamestown1630
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.”

13 posted on 12/23/2024 12:25:39 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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