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Subject:
possessives
From:
"Schwartz, Kirstin" <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:30:26 -0500
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Hi!

Here's a new question to throw out.  When you have a singular noun that ends
in s, to turn it into a possessive, do you add only the apostrophe, or
apostrophe "s"?  For example: Christopher Columbus' birthday or is it
Christopher Columbus's birthday?

-Kirstin Schwartz
Washington International School
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