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How do you form the possessive of a word ending in s?
Meow.
Apostrophe and s (James's hat)
 
 21.4%, 6 votes
Just an apostrophe (James' hat)
 
 53.6%, 15 votes
It depends on the word
 
 25.0%, 7 votes
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Posted on 09-13-10 02:56:12 AM Link | Quote
' with no s. That's how we were taught in school and something like "Samus's" would have gotten your English teacher to pull out the red pen.

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Posted on 09-13-10 02:58:30 AM Link | Quote
Yeah, my school was the opposite of Colin's.

Won't teachers realize that it's possible for 2 or more forms to both be correct?

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Posted on 09-13-10 03:00:54 AM Link | Quote
Depends for me but I'm probably more likely to use s'.

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Posted on 09-13-10 04:12:19 AM Link | Quote
I learned some rule about how s's was ok if the original word only had one syllable or something silly like that. I'm not sure if it was correct or not.

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