The apostrophe can be used to show who things belong to. If an item belongs to something, the apostrophe shows us who, by sitting at the end of the noun. If that noun doesn't end in s, the apostrophe ...

To possess means to own. My dad possesses a car! The girls possess that room! A noun that owns something is a possessive noun. For e.g : dad’s car; girls’ room; men’s wear. To form the possessive, we ...

Last week in this column we talked about some difficult possessives. This week, Bill in Williamsport, Pa., builds on that discussion with a question about a possessive issue we didn’t cover: “Joe is a ...

One of the great questions of American life comes up whenever we have a day in celebration of mothers, fathers, presidents, or veterans: Where do you stick the apostrophe? Should there even be an ...

We discuss ellipsis of the possessee in both pronominal possessor constructions (Dutch: zijn boek 'his book') and possessor doubling constructions (Dutch: John z'n boek, John his book 'John's book') ...

The apostrophe can be used to show who things belong to. If an item belongs to something, the apostrophe shows us who, by sitting at the end of the noun. If that noun doesn't end in s, the apostrophe ...