{"id":11473,"date":"2021-03-13T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/?p=11473"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T09:07:23","slug":"rodd-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/rodd-20\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010\u3053\u308c\u3067\u8ff7\u308f\u306a\u3044\uff01\u6240\u6709\u3092\u8868\u3059\u30a2\u30dd\u30b9\u30c8\u30ed\u30d5\u30a3\u30fc\u3011Where to place apostrophes when talking about possession and time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apostrophes can be used to indicate ownership or possession. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The boy&#8217;s crayons<\/li>\n<li>The boys&#8217; crayons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\u30a2\u30dd\u30b9\u30c8\u30ed\u30d5\u30a3\u30fc\u306f\u3001\u3069\u3053\u306b\u6765\u308b\u3079\u304d\u306a\u306e\u3067\u3057\u3087\u3046\uff1f<\/h2>\n<p><b>Should the apostrophe be placed before or after the &#8220;s&#8221;?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>So does the apostrophe go before the &#8220;s&#8221; or after the &#8220;s&#8221;? Here is a wee guide for you:<\/p>\n<div class=\"messageBox warning\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The apostrophe is placed\u00a0<b>before<\/b> the &#8220;s&#8221; for a <b>singular<\/b>\u00a0possessor. For example: one boy&#8217;s crayons.\u00a0It is placed\u00a0<b>after<\/b> the &#8220;s&#8221; for a plural possessor. For example: two boys&#8217; crayons<\/div>\n<div class=\"messageBox warning\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>Sometimes these rules are not true, and they are listed below, but here is an easy rule that works for everything all of the time: Everything to the left of the apostrophe is the possessor. Write the word as you&#8217;d say it (e.g., &#8220;boys crayons&#8221;), and then use this rule. You get boy<i>&#8216;s<\/i> for one boy, and <i>boys&#8217;<\/i> for more than one. This rule works every time, even for the rules that do not ring true below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Remember in the two examples above, &#8220;boy&#8221; and &#8220;boys&#8221; are the possessors. The position of the apostrophe has zero to do with &#8220;crayons.&#8221; That word can be singular or plural. It has no import as to where the apostrophe is placed. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One boy&#8217;s crayon<\/li>\n<li>One boy&#8217;s crayons<\/li>\n<li>Two boys&#8217; crayon<\/li>\n<li>Two boys&#8217; crayons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The apostrophe-placement ruling seems quite straightforward, but there are exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\u6240\u6709\u3092\u8868\u3059\u30a2\u30dd\u30b9\u30c8\u30ed\u30d5\u30a3\u30fc\u3001\u4f8b\u5916\u3082\u899a\u3048\u3088\u3046\uff01<\/h2>\n<p><b>An exception to the rule: plural words that don&#8217;t end &#8220;s&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The most main exception is when the plural doesn&#8217;t end in &#8220;s&#8221;, for example: children; women; people; men. The apostrophe is placed before the &#8220;s&#8221; even though they&#8217;re plural. For example: children&#8217;s toys; men&#8217;s perfume. So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>To show possession, if the plural ends with -s, add an apostrophe after the &#8220;s&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> For example:<\/b>\u00a0the boys\u2019 kites, the knights\u2019 chargers, General Motors\u2019 mission statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>If the plural doesn\u2019t end with -s put the apostrophe before the &#8220;s&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b> For example:<\/b>\u00a0the children\u2019s teacher, the oxen\u2019s yoke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Apostrophes can also be used in when talking about time.<\/p>\n<p>For example: &#8220;a month&#8217;s salary&#8221; and &#8220;two hours&#8217; notice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where to place the apostrophe when talking about time is quite simple: the apostrophe goes before the &#8220;s&#8221; for one unit of time.<\/p>\n<p>For example: one month&#8217;s salary and after the &#8220;s&#8221; when it&#8217;s more than one. For example: two months&#8217; salary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope this will help you to remember where to place the apostrophe when talking about possession.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Everyone! &nbsp; Apostrophes can be used to indicate ownership or possession. For example: The boy&#8217;s crayons The boys&#8217; crayons &nbsp; \u30a2\u30dd\u30b9\u30c8\u30ed\u30d5\u30a3\u30fc\u306f\u3001\u3069\u3053\u306b\u6765\u308b\u3079\u304d\u306a\u306e\u3067\u3057\u3087\u3046\uff1f Should the apostrophe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":11495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,442],"tags":[186,740,101,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-11473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-native","8":"category-writing","9":"tag-common-mistakes","10":"tag-punctuation","11":"tag-101","12":"tag-130","13":"article cf"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11473"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11492,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473\/revisions\/11492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}