{"id":51733,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/when-do-i-put-the-apostrophe-after-and-before-the-s-i-know-if-its-owned-by-someone-you-put-it-before-the-s-but-why-do-you-put-it-after-like-s"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:37:17","slug":"when-do-i-put-the-apostrophe-after-and-before-the-s-i-know-if-its-owned-by-someone-you-put-it-before-the-s-but-why-do-you-put-it-after-like-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/when-do-i-put-the-apostrophe-after-and-before-the-s-i-know-if-its-owned-by-someone-you-put-it-before-the-s-but-why-do-you-put-it-after-like-s\/","title":{"rendered":"When do i put the apostrophe, after and before the S? I know if it’s owned by someone, you put it before the s, but why do you put it after, like s’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

See explanation.<\/p>\n

The possesive form depends on the noun you want to change into a possesive form.<\/p>\n

If the noun does not end with s then you add ‘s (apstrophe s):<\/p>\n

dog – dog’s boy – boy’s<\/p>\n

If the noun ends with s (mostly in plural forms) you add only apostrophe:<\/p>\n

boys – boys’ teachers – teachers’<\/p>\n

As you see sometimes both forms are possible (boy’s – boys’) but they have different meaning. <\/p>\n

The form ‘s indicates a possesive form of a singular noun (boy’s = of a boy (one person)). <\/p>\n

While the form s’ indicates possesive form of a plural noun (boys’ = of boys (more than one person)) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See explanation. The possesive form depends on the noun you want to change into a possesive form. If the noun does not end with s then you add ‘s (apstrophe s): dog – dog’s boy – boy’s If the noun Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}