FWIW, when I was taking Freshman English classes at NCSU, we used Strunk
& White. I know it's still around here somewhere, I've seen it recently,
but it's not on the shelf where I thought it was.
However, Troyka - Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, 2nd Ed:
2. Adding -'s to show possession when singular nouns end in -s
That business's system for handling complaints is inefficient.
Chris's ordeal ended.
Lee Jones's insurance is expensive.
When adding -'s could lead to tongue-twisting pronunciation , practice
varies. All writers use the apostrophe. Some writers do not add the -s.
Other writers prefer to use the full -'s for consistency with other
cases; the result is pronounced as it sounds in its singular form. This
handbook chooses consistency and writes -'s.
Charles Dickens's story "A Christmas Carol" is a classic tale.
[Dickens's is pronounced Dickens, without any attempt at two z sounds in
a row.]
Do it either way you want, but please be consistent.
On 7/1/2014 12:21 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Mark Roberts
<[email protected]> wrote:
Darren Addy wrote:
You also cleverly avoided the
incorrect use of apostrophe on a name ending in "s" (which should
read: Adams' and not Adams's).
"Adams’s" is the correct usage according to both the APA and MLA
stylebooks.
For a possessive? Must I weep also for our teachers and stylebook writers?
According to:
http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/grammar/Apostro3.html
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