Comments on: Grammar 101: How to Use Apostrophes

By: Grammar 101: Singular and Plural || Beyond the Rhetoric ||

Grammar 101: Singular and Plural || Beyond the Rhetoric || — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:48:51 +0000

[...] two fishes. This is a very common mistake that people make. It is also very common for people to use apostrophes when pluralizing, but this is not correct either. You don’t say that there are three iPod’s; you say [...]

By: kenny

kenny — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:45:05 +0000

If I were to pluralize iPhone 3G I would say “I have 17 3G iPhones”.

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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:01:13 +0000

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By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:00:23 +0000

This is a very good summary on the use of the apostrophe.

For the record, I would prefer Chris’s and moguls’ from your example above…in Chris, the “s” is already present while in moguls it is already a suffix making the word plural rather than a part of the root word (mogul)

it might also be worth mentioning the difference between its and it’s where one is a contraction of it and is (it’s) and the other is possessive without an apostrophe (its)

As for the iPhone 3G, my humble opinion would say the following:
iPhone 3Gs is plural “I have 17 iPhone 3Gs in my garage”
iPhone 3G’s is possesive “His iPhone 3G’s screen is really scratched and dirty.”
and iPhone 3Gs’ is plural possessive “The iPhone 3Gs’ batteries don’t last very long.”

By: paulette

paulette — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:22:11 +0000

Language is evolving and maybe in this time wherein new technologies arise, we should look back to basics for a while:)