Charles’, Charles’s. You already know that to make most regular singular nouns possessive you add an apostrophe plus an S: the cook’s preference. And you know that to make most plural nouns ...

To form the possessive of a noun that ends in S, AP style has separate rules for proper names and generic nouns. For proper names like James, AP says, add an apostrophe only: He borrowed James’ car.

And so we run up against one of the more badly misnamed things in English grammar: the possessive. Yes, yes, it's true, we do use it to indicate possession: John's chair, Mary's house, Donald's ...

Always check with the powers that be at your company, organization, or school, because different people use different styles—adding an s to singular, possessive nouns ending in s being one of ...

A possessive is a word that shows possession or ownership of something. A possessive can be a noun, pronoun or adjective. Nouns are usually made possessive by adding an apostrophe and an ‘s’.

(Cranky Word Guy point: It’s technically inconsistent to treat “girls” as an attributive noun in “girls soccer team” and “women’s” as a possessive noun in “women’s soccer team.” ...

JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, is in the same grammar situation with the possessive of his name, “but because we spell it with an E, nobody thinks that’s weird,” she said.