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15:46 on Thu 29/Mar/07 Ok, this has been bugging me long enough. In the sentence " I drove my car to joes house. " where exactly in the word joes does the apostrophy go? Every time I see a word like that the apostrophy is before the S no matter what context they are using the word. Last I knew, the apostrophy was there to take the place of a letter. So instead of joe is, one would write Joe's. But if I wanted to use my example setence, wouldn't the apostrophy go after the S?

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leonasmyth
(18:04 on Thu 29/Mar/07) apostrophes are also used to show ownership, so in your example - Joe owns the house, therefore it is Joe's house
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peanut
(18:10 on Thu 29/Mar/07)
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But shouldn't the apostrophy go after the s? If not, when would it go after the s?
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peanut
(18:14 on Thu 29/Mar/07)
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Sill me, I should have googled it. One owner gets an 's, and more than one owner gets an s'
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peanut
(18:15 on Thu 29/Mar/07)
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That's silly not sill.
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Ethel
(19:45 on Thu 29/Mar/07) Peanut's got it!

But if there were a whole family of Peanuts - then the Peanuts' would have it. :)
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Clanad
(20:19 on Fri 30/Mar/07) Or if Joe's name happened to be Les or any other name ending in 's' (other than pluaralization) the apostrophe would be placed at the end...
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pauliwauli2
(23:19 on Fri 30/Mar/07) but don't forget! there is one exception - if you are saying something belongs to "it", you say "its" not "it's" !!

mistake i used to often make.
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Ethel
(18:43 on Sat 31/Mar/07) Surely not, Clanad.


Les's house. Chris's football. James's car clearly shows the car belongs to James. If it were James' car it would belong to whole James family.



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Gef
(21:24 on Sat 31/Mar/07) Poor Ethel doesn't have a clue.
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Hugh Spencer
(16:12 on Mon 02/Apr/07) Ethel is right. Apostrophes are used to show possession or if two words are shortened, e.g. it is - it's, they are - they're. The car belongs to Alan - Alan's car, the car belongs to the Smiths - the Smiths' car.
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Rusks
(13:01 on Wed 04/Apr/07) "Mistake I used to often make"
Neve split infinitives!
"Mistake I used to make often"!!! : )
Seeing as we're talking abou grammar!

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