For as long as people have been sending out Christmas cards, people have been messing up the plural and possessive forms of their own last names. A Word, Please: It came upon a grammar rule clear ...

So here’s my 2023 edition of how to make names plural, possessive and plural possessive in your holiday greetings. 1. Don’t use an apostrophe to form the plural of a family name.

Third, the difficulty sometimes arises with how to write plural forms. The plural of Jones, for example, is Joneses. So the plural possessive is Joneses’. Fourth, sometimes apostrophes are mistakenly ...

The possessive s in modern English is descended from one of several Old English forms: es, e, an, and a. Only the es form survived — with the e dropped — when English nouns lost most of their ...

It could go down in history as the Arkansas Apostrophe Act of 2007. Or maybe “Arkansas’s Apostrophe Act of 2007.” Last month, the Arkansas State Legislature passed a non-binding r… ...

Rep. Steve Harrelson, a Democrat in the Arkansas legislature, yesterday introduced a resolution to declare the correct way to write the possessive form of the state's name. That would be, he says ...

Resolution spells out state's possessive form February 28, 2007 at 5:26 a.m. by Daniel Nasaw ...

In my view, yes, each of those constructions demanded the possessive form, but you might be surprised to learn of the passionate disputation that the issue has aroused among professionals.