The English language has many awesome powers, perhaps none more awesome than its power to make people feel stupid. If you fancy yourself skilled with the language, you may not see my point. So allow ...

When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, ...

One of the great questions of American life comes up whenever we have a day in celebration of mothers, fathers, presidents, or veterans: Where do you stick the apostrophe? Should there even be an ...

As any regular reader of this column can tell you, possessives aren't as hard as they seem. Usually, if you just take it slow and remember the rules, you can avoid mistakes like "the Smith's house" ...

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’. For ...