The English language has many awesome powers, perhaps none more awesome than its power to make people feel stupid. If you fancy yourself skilled with the language, you may not see my point. So allow ...

When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, ...

One of the great questions of American life comes up whenever we have a day in celebration of mothers, fathers, presidents, or veterans: Where do you stick the apostrophe? Should there even be an ...

On October 22nd, at 2:50 P.M., @APStylebook tweeted a series of guidelines about how to punctuate possessives of nouns that end in “S”: “For possessives of plural nouns ending in s, add only an ...

A possessive is a word that shows possession or ownership of something. A possessive can be a noun, pronoun or adjective. Nouns are usually made possessive by adding an apostrophe and an ‘s’. For ...