I swore I wasn't going to do this.

THE POSSESSIVE S

I'm going to DIRECTLY QUOTE Strunk & White's Elements of Style here, so thou shalt not throw stones at me. Here is the word from what I consider the Bible of writing style:

It is the VERY FIRST RULE of writing in the book.

1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's whatever the final consonant.Thus write,

Charles's friend

Burns's poems

the witch's malice

The plural possessive form of words that end in 'S' are as follows:

parents' anniversary

friends' party

Smiths' house

And thus... I have opened the can of worms. Let the debate begin!

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I'm dedicating this chapter to @julietlyons because I'm so stinking proud that her books, My True Love Ghost and Dating the Undead are getting some much-deserved attention! (And, I also want to tell her to not get her hopes up about me writing about the Oxford comma.) ;-)