... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965)
NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970)
ODWE TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981)
OED TheOxfordEnglishDictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... Tess's
Father Christmas's Thomas's
To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the
plural in the normal way, e.g.
bosses' the octopuses' tentacles
the ... are given to illustrate the
point being discussed. The majority of these are real, rather than
invented, examples. Many of them have been drawn from the works of
some of the best twentieth-century...
...
Father Christmas's Thomas's
To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the plural in the normal
way, e. g.
bosses' the octopuses' tentacles
the ... As the inflexion of the plural of nouns: see plural formation.
B. As the inflexion of the third person singular present indicative of verbs, it requires the
same changes in the stem as the ... sound followed by the sound of hard g.
1. The single sound is the only one to occur at the end of a word, e. g. in
bring furlong song writing
2. The single sound also occurs in the middle of words,...
... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965)
NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970)
ODWE TheOxfordDictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981)
OED TheOxfordEnglishDictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... disagreement. The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve
these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage.
TheOxford Guide to English Usage has this aim. Within the limits just
... Tess's
Father Christmas's Thomas's
To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the
plural in the normal way, e.g.
bosses' the octopuses' tentacles
the...
... languages they speak will therefore be one of
the major themes of this chapter, which will focus on the pre-history of
English and the various developments which underpin the creation of English
as ... of English that the
migrants took with them varied considerably according to such factors as the part
of Britain from which they came, their social class, their age, and the date at which
they ... Other tenses had to be indicated by the use of
another verb (such as ‘have’) alongside the verb in question. Furthermore, the
simple ‘present’ and ‘past’ tense forms might themselves convey the...