TV writer's strike

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No it should be writers'. But I cannot edit the title of the thread. Oh well.

I'm going off topic. I apologize. The true use of plural possessive dictates that you add an apostrophe and the letter s. But due to media and whatnot we've become less grammatically correct (think of adding the comma when you have 3 of something and you have an and before the last--> red, blue, and green. However, we often see now that the last comma is being dropped).

Another reason why I hate the way grammar and usage is taught in middle and high school is that we're given definitions instead of doing our grammar within paradigms. An example would be that adjectives describe a noun. If you have a cheese sandwich, then cheese would supposedly be an adjective because it describes what kind of sandwich. However, since we're given the stupid definition that a noun is a "person, place, thing, or idea" then cheese is a thing and is not an adjective, but cheese is a noun. So we have a noun modifying a noun.

I'm done.

p.s. I love my union.

 

[spicypumpkin]

I think it works this way.

If you pronounce the word with the extra s like in Jones's (prounounced Jones-es) then you do the s's thing.

Now take something that belongs to a group of writers, like a strike, it's still pronounced "writers" not "writers-es" so you add an apostrophe after the s and nothing else. So you get writers'. That's what I intended.

Apostrophe.

The most common way to form a possessive in English is with apostrophe and s: "a hard day's night." After a plural noun ending in s, put just an apostrophe: "two hours' work" (i.e., "the work of two hours"). If a plural doesn't end in s — children, men, people — plain old apostrophe-s: "children's," "men's," "people's." It's never "mens'" or "childrens'."

There's also the opposite case: when a singular noun ends in s. That's a little trickier. Most style guides prefer s's: James's house. Plain old s-apostrophe (as in James' house) is common in journalism, but most other publishers prefer James's. It's a matter of house style.

Note that, with the exception of the little-used one, the possessives of pronouns never get apostrophes: theirs, not their's; hers, not her's; its, not it's. See It's versus Its.

Apostrophes are sometimes used to make acronyms or other abbreviations plural (another matter of a local house style). My preference: don't use apostrophes to make abbreviations plural — not "They took their SAT's," but "They took their SATs." The only exception is when having no apostrophe might be confusing: "Two As" is ambiguous (it might be read as the word as); make it "Two A's." Never use apostrophes as single quotation marks to set off words or phrases (unless you need a quotation within a quotation).

Using an apostrophe to refer to a decade — the 1960's versus the 1960s — is another matter of house style; again, journalists tend to use the apostrophe, and most other publishers don't. I prefer to omit it: refer to the 1960s or the '60s (the apostrophe indicates that "19" has been omitted), not the 1960's or (worse) the '60's.

See also Microsoft Word for tips on distinguishing apostrophes from single quotation marks. [Entry revised 14 Sept. 2004, with a tiny correction on 21 Oct. 2004; revised again 12 Jan. 2005.]

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What does this mean? What's a pram?

A pram is a baby stroller or carriage.