This article was co-authored by Noah Taxis and by How.com.vn staff writer, Janice Tieperman. Noah Taxis is an English Teacher based in San Francisco, California. He has taught as a credentialed teacher for over four years: first at Mountain View High School as a 9th- and 11th-grade English Teacher, then at UISA (Ukiah Independent Study Academy) as a Middle School Independent Study Teacher. He is now a high school English teacher at St. Ignatius College Preparatory School in San Francisco. He received an MA in Secondary Education and Teaching from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. He also received an MA in Comparative and World Literature from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a BA in International Literary & Visual Studies and English from Tufts University.
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Apostrophes can be super pesky to deal with, especially when it comes to plural possessives and words or names like “James” that end in “s.” Is it okay to just add a single apostrophe at the end, or should you add an apostrophe and an “s” to the word? We’ve answered all your questions below so you can become an apostrophe expert.
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- ↑ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/apostrophe_introduction.html
- ↑ https://www.codot.gov/business/grants/safetygrants/assets/APStyleGuideCheatSheet.pdf
- ↑ https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/apostrophe_introduction.html
- ↑ https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/PossessivesandAttributives/faq0001.html
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