Assume someone's name ends with x. If we want to refer to one of his belongings, should we say ---x's or ---x'es?  The problem here is that if the pronunciation follows spelling.
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1) Alex's house      2) Alex' house     When the noun ends with the letter 's' or 'x', do I need to put 's' after an apostrophe or not?  I remember I read some rules related to this in my school grammar book, but now I've forgotten it.
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If you have to send an email to someone acquaintance and you only know the first name, would you address him/her as Mr. John or Ms. Jane? The intention is to sound as formal as possible. So, no 'Hello John/Jane'
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Is it "The case' closure" or "The case's closure"? How exactly do I pronounce it?
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What is the proper possessive form for a surname that ends with “z”? Is it z’ or z’s?
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Many questions already ask about this topic ( , , etc.) and their answers vary, but they always give exceptions to the apostrophe-s rule, for example:      6.24 The general rule for the possessive of nouns covers most proper nouns, including most names ending in sibilants."   Examples they give include Kansas’s, Ross’s land, and Jones’s reputation. Exceptions include Jesus’  and Moses’.  Which names does this apply to?  Is the Aeneas’  form correct, or is it Aeneas’s instead?
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If the cricket ground Lord's is a possessive, what if you want to describe something belonging to Lord's? Would you say:     I was very impressed by Lord's's customer services.   It doesn't look right, so what is the correct way of writing it?
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The following words and their plurals seem to be somewhat inconsistent:   combo / combos concerto / concertos grotto / grottos / grottoes (?) hero / heros (?) / heroes potato / potatos (?) / potatoes tornado / tornados / tornadoes tomato / tomatos / tomatoes volcano / volcanos / volcanoes   Is there a common source for -s versus -es? With regards to words such as "heros", is it likely to see more words start dropping -es in favor of -s?  (If you have any other good examples of strange plurals from words ending in "o" feel free to edit them into the question.)
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I’ve been looking over what has been posted regarding the use of ’s.   I used to be a Technical Writer (years ago). The title of one of our training documents was Users’ Guide.  Once, a coworker said every time he saw that title he expected users to start coming.    Never made any sense to me, but I have to admit that the majority of us didn't understand the use of s’ in place of ’s.  What is the difference?
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What happened to them, and how were they once used? Straining my mind to sound archaic, I came up with the following:     Dost thou thinkest thou can escape thy sins?   and     Bringeth me mine armor and favorite sword.   I’d like to use these suffixes intelligently, so my questions are: how are ‑est and ‑eth properly appellated in conjugations, and  when and why did they disappear?
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If you have something like:     Get the name(s) of all users.   Should name be singular or plural?  The way I see it, each user has only one name, so it could be singular, but you will be getting many names, one for each users, so it could also be plural. Anyone know what is the proper way?
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The is sometimes pronounced &quot;tha&quot; (/ðə/) or &quot;thi&quot; (/ðiː/). Which is the correct pronunciation of this word? Are both correct and used interchangeably at specific places? If the second question is correct, please provide the rule of pronouncing at different places.
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I realize (or realise?) I may be splitting hairs here, but I find this question interesting, and I’ve never heard or seen it discussed before.  I was about to post a quote from Rich Hickey outside my cubicle, taken from  with him, in which the writer uses the traditional British spelling of realize.  Hickey is an American, as am I, so I changed it back to the American spelling.    However, it got me thinking: if Hickey were British, should I spell it his way?  The question then is whether I should do so only if quoting something he wrote, or even if I were quoting something he spoke — and thus something he did not actually spell.    Tangentially: should I think of this as quoting Hickey himself, or quoting the author who quoted him?  My gut instinct is that if you’re quoting something written, then you should maintain whatever spelling the author used, and if something spoken then it’s debatable, and using the spelling of your dialect (or of your audience’s dialect) is probably okay.   But I’d like to know: do any conventions exist on this matter?
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I usually use the plural form after "some."   Example:     I bought some books about France   But I would also say some source states that France is best toured in fall.  Is there a specific grammar rule? May I say that in the second sentence I am really thinking at a very specific source, so singular is needed?
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I was trying to write “I was using the lecture's flow of logic”, as to say that I was following the logic that was in the lecture. But I am corrected by a spell-checker.   I tried to google it, but this leads me to another much more silly question. How do you call that “..'s” that designates ownership / association? I really did try to google it, but since “'s” is such a bad search term, and any formation for "What do you call that 's you add to designate ownership" I could think of, yielded anything but the answer I was looking for.   So my question is twofold.    What is the name of that 's thing? I guess it is not the "ownership 's" :) Is it perhaps called officially the ‘possessive s’? Is saying "lecture's" (pertaining to the lecture) valid English grammar? Or is it valid grammar but people just don't say it this way?
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I work with a company whose name is frequently reduced to an initialism (acronym).  Let's say the name is &quot;Cool Computer Systems&quot; (CCS).  I am engaged in an ongoing, bloody battle with the marketing department, wherein they insist the following apostrophe use is correct:  Buy CCS' New Product.  Reading that line brings visions of crying 4th grade teachers and librarians to mind.  I am quite certain that it should be written:  Buy CCS's New Product.   UPDATE: The examples are in title case because the sentence is the subject line of an e-mail.  UPDATE: Their argument is that &quot;Systems&quot; is plural.  I say that plurality doesn't matter, because &quot;Systems&quot; is part of the name.  The name as a whole should be handled as a singular entity, because the company is, in fact, a single, legal entity.  Thus, the possessive form should be written:  The Emperor's clothes Cool Computer Systems's clothes CSS's clothes
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Most people seem to stumble over this. The problem can arise with any multi-word phrase that needs a possessive but ends in S, and so sounds awkward using the clitic apostrophe-S. I've heard this particular one variously rendered as:   You guys' You guys's Your guys' / your guy's   What's you guys...your...guises...what's your take on it?
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A relatively modern dictionary (I don’t know which one, because we’ve cut out the pages and used them as wallpaper in our bathroom, but I know it’s less than 20 years old) indicates that R’s is one correct pluralization of R, as is Rs, but whichever dictionary this is, it’s kind of a no-name brand, so I’m not sure I trust it.  I’ve always wondered what the best way was to pluralize single letters or numerals, like 2’s or 2s.  What’s correct?