Posted by Gabbix2 on September 23, 2005, at 17:38:30
In reply to person's, posted by Joslynn on September 23, 2005, at 15:27:46
> I hate to confuse matters, but I work in the language field, and I really think it should be the person's, singular possessive, with the apostrophe before the s. I say this because you wrote THE person's, and using the makes it singular. The person, just one person. The individual. If you do in fact mean more than one person, than the word the needs to come out.
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I hate to confuse matters, but I work in the language field, and I really think it should be the person's, singular possessive, with the apostrophe before the s. I say this because you wrote THE person's, and using the makes it singular. The person, just one person. The individual. If you do in fact mean more than one person, than the word the needs to come out.
>Putting "the" before it doesn't necessarily make it singular. As in "the persons involved"
To make a plural noun possessive, simply add an apostrophe to the word. If the plural does not end in an s, then add an apostrophe plus s.
Examples: The girls' dresses
(The dresses belonging to the girls.)This was taken from "The rules of apostrophes"
Concurring with that from Damos's great suggestion "The apostrophe protection society"
... however, if there are two or more dogs, companies or Joneses in our example, the apostrophe comes after the 's':
the dogs' bones
the companies' logos
Joneses' bakeries
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