[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammar report (Seriously OT now!)

[John Winters]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:41, Simon Stewart wrote:
> On Tuesday, Nov 26, 2002, at 08:38 Europe/London, John Winters wrote:
> >
> > "To show possession, put an apostrophe S on all words, singular or
> > plural, except where there is a plural S in which case put the
> > apostrophe after the S.  There are five exceptions - ours, yours, hers,
> > its, theirs."
> >
> > One of many things we had to learn off by heart.
> 
> Was I the only one that was taught that if the word ends in an S, then 
> the singular possessive (I think it is :) can omit a trailing "s" and 
> just make do with an apostrophe?

I hope so.  Perhaps you could sue your teacher?

John
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