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Apostrophies

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? peanut (Thu 14:46 29/Mar/07)

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leonasmyth		(Thu 17:04 29/Mar/07) apostrophes are also used to show ownership, so in your example - Joe owns the house, therefore it is Joe's house
peanut		(Thu 17:10 29/Mar/07) Question Author But shouldn't the apostrophy go after the s? If not, when would it go after the s?
peanut		(Thu 17:14 29/Mar/07) Question Author Sill me, I should have googled it. One owner gets an 's, and more than one owner gets an s'
peanut		(Thu 17:15 29/Mar/07) Question Author That's silly not sill.
Ethel		(Thu 18:45 29/Mar/07) Peanut's got it! But if there were a whole family of Peanuts - then the Peanuts' would have it. :)
Clanad		(Fri 19:19 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...
pauliwauli2		(Fri 22:19 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.
Ethel		(Sat 17:43 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.
Gef		(Sat 20:24 31/Mar/07) Poor Ethel doesn't have a clue.
Hugh Spencer		(Mon 15:12 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.
Rusks		(Wed 12:01 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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