Answer by Sven Yargs for Which singular names ending in “s” form possessives...
Bryan Garner, Garner's Modern American Usage, second edition (2003) offers the following discussion of how to handle possessive proper names ending in -s:POSSESSIVES. A. Singular Possessives. To form a...
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The simplest rule is to always add ’s to a singular noun. It is traditional to omit it on a few words, but it's never wrong to add it. Since you don't have to pronounce the ’s, how the word sounds has...
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The most useful rule — and the most general and the easiest to remember — is simply that you add ’swhenever you actually say an extra /əz/ at the end when forming the possessive, compared with how you...
View ArticleWhich singular names ending in “s” form possessives with only a bare apostrophe?
Many questions already ask about this topic (What is the correct possessive for nouns ending in "‑s"? , When did it become correct to add an “s” to a singular possessive already ending in “‑s”?, etc.)...
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