Writing Tip – Forming The Possessive of Singular Nouns

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Writing Tip from Elements of Style by William Strunk

Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding ‘s.

Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.

Thus write,

Charles’s friend

Burns’s poems

the witch’s malice


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