Straight talk from Yossarian the Grammarian about apostrophes and why “the Jones’s house” is wrong and “the Joneses’ house” is right. English grammar
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SANDOR should have his own youtube channel.
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You’re wrong.
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Can I say:
“Jones’ s visiting Canada”
Is that right. I know that is not possessive.. .is the contraction of the verb TO BE.
just great <3
Haha what’s a grammarian?
LMAO
Very good teacher. GBU Mr. Thoth
fearzone2000:
Would you ever say “Ben’s visiting Canada?”
No, because that would mean something like “visiting Canada” is something like a place Ben owns.
When speaking we pronounce the word “is” together with a name, but it is not proper English.
why the es??? if James’s shoes then what about james surname?? the jameses’ house? so the es has to be because it cant be jamess’ and the house belongs to the james’s? Oh bugger ive confused myself…hellllllpppppppppppppppp
If a family’s surname is James, then if you have more than one member of that family, they are Jameses. Jameses is just an ordinary plural, like houses. So to make a possessive out of a plural that ends in s, one simply adds an apostrophe. The houses’ value (the value of the houses), the Jameses’ mansion (the mansion of the Jameses).
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IM famous lol james is my name
Thank you for your good teaching. There is much confusion regarding the apostrophe, especially when we find it being used not for possession but for the plural! Some experts have forecast that the apostrophe might soon become an indicator for the plural rather than the possessive. Perish the thought! As for Xerxes and Heracles and Pericles, and other famous names ending in s, I still prefer simply adding only the apostrophe to show possession.
haha i love your style of teaching. You ‘re funny
Instead of Jonese’s can it be written as Jones’s?
I would think this is also right because the apostrophe could be there for the missing “e”
@josechealamo It cannot be written Jonese’s in the first place. If John and Martin Jones own a house, then it is the Joneses’ house. If just John owns it, then it is Mr. Jones’s house.
I’d put James’ for James but I’d put Chris’s for Chris, because one ends in a Z sound the other an S.
@josechealamo Did you not listen to what he said, that would put the possession with Jonese.