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Question (English type) on possessive pronoun?

"gwstang" said:
Also, I know someone whose last name is spelled Owens. So I would use an apost. after the s to signify ownership. Owens' house for instance. But would that be pronounced as written or as "Owensez" house? I would thing Owens' would be singular but Owenses would be plural? How would the Owenses house (plural) with more than one Owens living there, be spelled?
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I went to high school with a guy with the last name "Beavers" his dad's name was Harry and their mailbox said "the Harry Beavers' residence" wish i had a picture.
 
"gwstang" said:
Also, I know someone whose last name is spelled Owens. So I would use an apost. after the s to signify ownership. Owens' house for instance. But would that be pronounced as written or as "Owensez" house? I would thing Owens' would be singular but Owenses would be plural? How would the Owenses house (plural) with more than one Owens living there, be spelled?
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This why in OZ, everyone is known as "Mate" - Thats Old Mates house down the street there!
 
English is non-Euclidian. That is why us Engineers and Science types have an incredible time attempting to comprehend it.......

How does that apostrophe thingy work with Y'all's y'all?
 
"ko67" said:
I went to high school with a guy with the last name "Beavers" his dad's name was Harry and their mailbox said "the Harry Beavers' residence" wish i had a picture.
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My dad had a teacher with the last name Butts, husband Harry. True story. They were from Bristol VA in case you just blew your load Kev.
 
I just find it funny Mark would think he had to inform us it wasn't he who wrote something intelligent.
 
"Horseplay" said:
I just find it funny Mark would think he had to inform us it wasn't he who wrote something intelligent.
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What you should find funny, or sad, is that he GAVE his computer to his WIFE to type on HIS forum. I see he hasn't responded....he's probably typing out recipes on Paula Dean's website.
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(love ya Deb, really)
 
"blue65coupe" said:
What you should find funny, or sad, is that he GAVE his computer to his WIFE to type on HIS forum.
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Now who does that remind me of from a few years back..... :confu :confu
 
"silverblueBP" said:
I'm here...NOW. That is what happens when you ask a "smart college type" to explain proper grammar! I figure she'd swoop in, answer the question and move on. How was I supposed to know she'd spend 30 minutes typing an explanation? I mean, she had to go back 5 times just to make sure the grammar was correct!

Shoulda known better than to have an "egghead" answer a question on "Man's" forum :hide
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at least she used the "dog eating poop" line to keep us interested. thats the first requirement in teaching, keeping the students' interest.

did i place the apostrophe correctly???????

should have asked "evil eleanor" isn't he our grammer guru???
 
I want to state for the record that I have not eaten my dog's poop, nor my dogs' poop (I have two dogs). I have stepped in my dogs' poop a few times, but I don't have pictures.
 
Well, if more than one dog poops, is called the dogs' poops' or the poopy assed dogs? we arre getting way too close to Deliverance on here...lol Twangy twang twang twang...
 
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