ENG 2401 Class 4
In today's class we:
Did chapter 22, 23 and 24
Looked at Elements of Style Rule 1:
"1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.
Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,
-Charles's friends’ bicycles’s tires
- Burns's poems
-the witch's malice
This is the usage of the United States Government Printing Office and of
the Oxford University Press.
Exceptions are the possessive of ancient proper names in _-es_ and
_-is_, the possessive _Jesus'_, and such forms as _for conscience'
sake_, _for righteousness' sake_. But such forms as _Achilles' heel_,
_Moses' laws_, _Isis' temple_ are commonly replaced by
the heel of Achilles
the laws of Moses
the temple of Isis
The pronominal possessives _hers_, _its_, _theirs_, _yours_, and
_oneself_ have no apostrophe.
Looked at Elements of Style Rule 1:
"1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.
Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,
-Charles's friends’ bicycles’s tires
- Burns's poems
-the witch's malice
This is the usage of the United States Government Printing Office and of
the Oxford University Press.
Exceptions are the possessive of ancient proper names in _-es_ and
_-is_, the possessive _Jesus'_, and such forms as _for conscience'
sake_, _for righteousness' sake_. But such forms as _Achilles' heel_,
_Moses' laws_, _Isis' temple_ are commonly replaced by
the heel of Achilles
the laws of Moses
the temple of Isis
The pronominal possessives _hers_, _its_, _theirs_, _yours_, and
_oneself_ have no apostrophe.
