Just voted up the answers/comments of @PixPrefect and @anonymoose, as I agree with adding an explicit s when making the possessive for such names (see Elements of Style by William Strunk and the James example at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/).
With that said, I would like...
This is a style issue, not a matter of objective correctness or incorrectness. Having said that, I note the advice that various style manuals offer.
From Words Into Type (1974):
Proper names. The possessive form of almost all proper names is formed by adding apostrophe and s to a singular or...
I'm looking for a word, to be honest I'm not sure if such a word even exists, though this would be a word, or a phrase that describes more of a personality.
Take this as an example:
Bill works as an electronic engineer. He enjoys cycling, jogging and
mostly any sport. He's teaching himself...
What is a good word to describe someone who is confident, will correct you if you are mistaken about something and they are correct. They display a degree of self-assurance that could be construed as arrogance or a touch narcissistic, but they are not mean nor do they try to humiliate others if m...
This may be a dumb question, but I am bad at grammar (software engineer).
Example: practical becomes practicality, equal becomes equality
What do you call that?
BONUS: is there such a version of the word empirical?
Thanks!
Long story short, I'm writing a story about vampires in a larger historical context. They likely have their own slang to help them avoid any references to the sun and to God, since both of those things have the power to kill them. They do say things like "and that's when everything hit daybreak,"...
I'm working on a novel while trying to take into account the historical context surrounding it. It begins in 1140 AD, so the characters would use Old English, Latin, Old French, and other similar languages from that time period. It also features some vampiric characters. Over the years, these vam...
In the following example from page 145 of Frederick Schauer’s Thinking Like a Lawyer, what would differ if the sentence were to start with Being instead of In being?
In being an empirical response to
an empirical claim, this explanation engages Realism on its own terms,
and so little can...
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