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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
The volume of people that plug apostrophes into any plural word is mildly disturbing. It's become a bit of an english epidemic online. Let's remember that apostrophes indicate possession or omitted letters.
And if the word you're plugging it into for possession purposes ends with an 's', you place is after that 's'.
Just think before you play pin the apostrophe on the donkey.
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Well. If you want to get technical, the apostrophe doesn't actually indicate a possessive. "'s" possessives are a contraction of "his"
So "Adam's job" is a contraction of "Adam his job"