http://www.sarahleavitt.com/comics-and-writing/writing/grammar-tip-6-plurals-and-apostrophes/ The website for Sarah Leavitt, Vancouver writer, editor and cartoonist Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:15:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.sarahleavitt.com/comics-and-writing/writing/grammar-tip-6-plurals-and-apostrophes/comment-page-1/#comment-21 kiley Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:10:29 +0000 http://www.sarahleavitt.com/word/?p=170#comment-21 Good points, but what about the dilemma of the singular possessive of a word ending in "s"? For example, my company is called Turner-Riggs. That "s" gives me no end of trouble. According to my general preferences (which include avoidance of the truncated possessive as in "that business' main concern"), it should be "Turner-Riggs's clients include ..." But this is ugly. So I'm resorting to a lot of sentence structure finagling to get out of having to make Turner-Riggs possessive at all! Good points, but what about the dilemma of the singular possessive of a word ending in “s”? For example, my company is called Turner-Riggs. That “s” gives me no end of trouble. According to my general preferences (which include avoidance of the truncated possessive as in “that business’ main concern”), it should be “Turner-Riggs’s clients include …” But this is ugly. So I’m resorting to a lot of sentence structure finagling to get out of having to make Turner-Riggs possessive at all!

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