[ebooktalk] Re: Grammar Question
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 18:13:45 +0100
all I know is that St James's park in Newcastle and the ~metro station
associated with it have apostraphe s.
On 8 Jul 2013, at 11:22, Elaine Harris (Rivendell) wrote:
> Almost, Steve.
>
> In common usage, it is either James' birthday, (now deemed old-fashioned) or
> James's birthday. Both singular. Different ways of saying the same thing.
>
> Adding an es to James, making it Jameses, say for example as in "The
> Jameses' party" implies a plural; several people called James, probably the
> surname.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Elaine
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> I don't think there would be a correct one on this you should (as always in
> my opinion) write what you say. So if you say James' birthday then that is
> right. If you add the second e s then you put apostrophe s.
>
> Steve
>
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> When I find the apostrophe difficult to place is with names like James. So
> do I send a card on James's birthday or just on James' birthday?
> Alison
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
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> And there you go, four answers all saying pretty much the same thing but in
> very different ways.
> On 6 Jul 2013, at 12:20, Ian Macrae wrote:
>
>> Dave, men is a plural noun and therefore the apostrophe goes before
>> the s
> because the matches belong to men. Ladies is the plural of a singular noun,
> Lady and therefore the apostrophe goes after the s because the matches
> belong to all the ladies, not just to one lady. This brings back a horrific
> memory of me having teach this to a class of 3rd years secondary school
> students having been up all night at a party at college during my teaching
> practise.
>> On 6 Jul 2013, at 10:43, David Russell wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> Can someone please answer this for me.
>>>
>>> When I look at the schedule for Wimbledon tennis, they always mark
>>> the matches as "men's singles" or "Ladies' Singles".
>>>
>>> You may need to read this letter by letter to understand what I mean.
>>>
>>> I am just wondering why the men and ladies are treated differently?
>>>
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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