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- What is the difference between S and S? - English Language Learners . . .
Both express possession, of course We use 's with singular nouns For example, " my son's toys " will be "the toys that belong to my son" We use only an apostrophe (') after plural nouns that end in -s: " my sons' toys " means that I have more than one son and these are their toys We use 's for possession with the other plural nouns For example: " my children's toys; women's wishes, etc
- Apostrophe s or ss - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Closed 5 years ago In this sentence should I use Apostrophe as s's or s'? I am always confused with what exactly the rule behind s' and s's The sentence is: Hours later Fadnavis's resignation, the the NCP-Congress leaders combined met Governor and staked claim to form the Government Fadnavis is the name of the Chief Minister (for your
- pronunciation - Whats the rule for pronouncing “’s” as z or s . . .
The word ending spelled apostrophe "s" is a phonemic z in all the instances I can think of (But English spelling is not very regular, so there could be exceptions ) However, English has a morphophonemic rule that converts a voiced obstruent (e g z ) to the corresponding voiceless phoneme (for z that would be s ) when the z is immediately preceded by a voiceless obstruent phoneme The
- (s) or s at the end of a word to denote one or many
I like to use less- greater- than brackets, "<s>", which is more similar to parentheses than separation with a forward-slash, and has added benefit of making easier to parse with more clear distinction in cases of more different pluralizations than required by simply adding an ‘s’ or ‘es’ (e g also eliminating something, like ‘-us’ to ‘-i’)
- Is vs. Are when using (s) [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
When using (s), should "is" or "are" be used? Regardless of what option(s) is decided or Regardless of what option(s) are decided
- Why does the contraction shes mean she is or she has?
EDIT: I asked this question a while ago and most people’s answers or comments tend to be that there is no rule regarding this usage of the contraction “she’s” or contractions at all, but doing some digging (by accident) I cane upon this answer regarding clitics: The clitic 's meaning "is" can only be used to substitute for a "weak form" is (pronounced əz ) The is in in "Where is it
- Possessive nouns, the apostrophe, and no S
I was watching an episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver It's an American show hosted by an Englishman He displayed a paragraph of text during the show which read, "The Bad Boys Club' T-s
- s vs. z in BE vs. AE - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I have trouble understanding why some words change "s"-es to "z"-s from BE to AE and some not For example: analyse -> analyze characterise -> characterize hypnotise -> hypnotize But: compromise ->
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