Where do you put the apostrophe?

Question

when do use 's and s' and do you have an example?

Answer 1

's is added to names and pronouns to express possessive, and the s' is added to make nouns possessive that are plural, as well as names that end in s.

Example:

That bike is Mike's.

That book's cover is dirty.

and:

The adults' bills were becoming too much.

Isis' bracelet was silver.

Answer 2

s' is for when a name or word ends in s and there is soemthing that belongs to them.

EX: James' car.

's is for everything else

EX: Jamie's car

Answer 3

Apostrophe s is singular, and s apostrophe is plural.

For example:

These books belong to two teachers. They are teachers' books.

This book belong to one teacher. It is the teacher's book.

These apples come from those five farmers. They are the farmers' apples.

This apple come from Jack's tree. It is that man's apple.

Those pies were made by those girls. They are those girls' pies.

This pie was made by that woman. It is that woman's pie.

I hope this helps.

Answer 4

you use 's when your talking about something belonging to only one person and s' when your talking about something belonging to more than one person.  

Answer 5

if nick had an apple it would be "nick's apple"

if jesus had an apple it would be "jesus' apple"

it is s' if the possesive noun ends with an "s"

you wouldn't say jesus's...

does that help?

Answer 6

As the others answering this question said- the apostrophe goes before the "s" when it refers to the possession of 1 thing and after the "s" when it refers to the possession of more than 1 thing

E.g. The horse's fur was glistening (one horse and his fur)

       The horses' fur was glistening (more than one horse and their fur)

However, in your example, you want to denote a plural (several people with the initials JC- in which case you don't need an apostrophe at all. In this case you would write JCs

Answer 7

easy- the apostrophe only goes after an S if you are talking about multiple things.

-The kids' parents.

-Your friends' moms.

it goes before the S if you are just talking about something that belongs to someone else. The subject with an apostrophe in it tells the reader that the subject owns something.

-Go find Marie's goldfish.

-Don't wake up George's dad.

don't EVER use an apostrophe just to pluralize something! it looks terrible. i saw a Hooters billboard once that said "Kid's Eat Free!"

that's very wrong because the kids don't possess anything in the sentence, we are just being told what they can do.

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oh, and the  ' S   i just used on 'that's' is just a contraction, where you literally use the apostrophe as a placeholder for whatever letter you are taking out when you are combining two words, like

- let us = let's    the apostrophe goes in place of the U.

- it is = it's       the apostrophe goes in place of the I.

you obviously know what a contraction is, i am just throwing it in there.

Answer 8

It's easy:

's means one person, place, or thing owns it; or the 's replaces an "is".

The cow's udder.

The child's toy.

The sky's the limit.

s' means that more than one person, place, or thing owns it.

The actors' cars were parked on the lot.