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English Spelling – Apostrophe + S, after S
This lesson will help clear up the confusion when using ‘s’ for singular pronouns ending in ‘s’ or with the ‘z’ sound. We had some questions about this after one of my earlier English pronunciation lessons
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Reinoni
Hi James
Nice class!
Weel, i got stuck sometimes to use (‘s and s’). Could you check for me, if this sentences are rights ?
“The dog of Chris ate the food.”
Which one is correct ?
1 – Chris’s dog ate the food.
2 – Chris’ dog ate the food
If you can send me an answers, i’ll be glad.
Rey
Both of them are correct, as james explained in the lesson.
The first case is usual case.
In the second case we take of the ‘s’ because the pronunciation is difficult. If you use this form, you must use it through out of the whole document, otherwise, it becomes confusing!
Obey
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That’s right, you got it!
Fj~
amm confusin’ I guess the first statement is the right one:D
ittp
the second is correct
JOSE10
HEY, YOU ARE VERY GOOD ON ALL TOPIC THAT TEACH.
NOW I ASK THE QUESTION: HOW I CAN HANDLE PRONUNCIATION, THIS IS MY MAYOR PROBLEM; IF YOU CAN PLEASE HELP ME.
THANK YOU
JOSE10
adam arif
thanks james!
Norman
What happens when there are more than one James?
Say for arguments sake St James’s park was dedicated to two St James’s – how do you get that accross?
How will the reader know that the park is possed by two?
Another example (more likely to occur) would be when you say ‘The James’s household’ – how does that work when you want the reader to know that the household is the home of more than one person with the surname James?
This is a very rare and particular case, but first we need to make “James” plural — to show that there is more than one James family or saint. So it would become Jameses (pronounced the same as “James’s”). Then if we are talking about possession with the multiple Jameses, it will become Jameses’s or Jameses’. In this case, the first option is quite difficult to pronounce, so we might use the second. In thirty years of speaking English, I have never run into this, though!
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