How to use the apostraphe eg the sellers or the seller's?

Question

How to use the apostraphe eg the sellers or the seller's?

Answer 1

Depends whether you are talking about just one seller or more.

e.g the seller's advertisements refers to the advertisements of one seller. However if you are talking about more than one seller the apostrophe goes at the end of the word.

e.g. I hate/love/despise all the sellers' advertisements refers to the advertisements of a load of sellers

Answer 2

sellers is plural for seller, and seller's is used such as the seller's car.

Answer 3

Sellers is a noun meaning more than one seller.

Seller's is an adjective meaning belonging to a single seller.

Sellers' is an adjective meaning belong to more than one seller.

Answer 4

This is a tricky issue for a lot of people.

Use *sellers* when writing about more than one seller.  For example: "Sellers are annoyed by the new regulations." (Plural)

Use *seller's* when writing about something belonging to or attributed to one seller. For example: "That seller's policy is easy to understand." (Singular possessive. Apostrophe before the final *s*.)

Use *sellers'* when writing about something belonging to or attributed to more than one seller. For example: "The sellers' decision was to close their flea market stands at dusk." (Plural possessive. Apostrophe after the final *s*.)