... Tess's
Father Christmas's Thomas's
To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe tothe s of the
plural in the normal way, e.g.
bosses' the octopuses' tentacles
the ... EnglishUsage (edn. 2,
revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965)
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ODWE TheOxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981)
OED The ... Some of the ways in which
American usage differs from British are pointed out.
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Father Christmas's Thomas's
To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe tothe s of the plural in the normal
way, e. g.
bosses' the octopuses' tentacles
the ... stuccoes
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use of the hyphen is exceptional, and the...
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TheOxfordGuidetoEnglish ... Tess's
Father Christmas's Thomas's
To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe tothe s of the
plural in the normal way, e.g.
bosses' the octopuses' tentacles
the ... EnglishUsage (edn. 2,
revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965)
NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970)
ODWE TheOxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981)
OED The...