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... which there arises uncertainty, difficulty, or disagreement. The proper aim of a usageguide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage. The Oxford GuidetoEnglish ... Tess's Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe tothe s of the plural in the normal way, e.g. bosses' the octopuses' tentacles the ... within the word to connect a prefix or suffix to the stem. With most prefixes and suffixes it is normal to write the whole compound as a single word; the use of the hyphen is exceptional, and the ...
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