Last week in this column we talked about some difficult possessives. This week, Bill in Williamsport, Pa., builds on that discussion with a question about a possessive issue we didn’t cover: “Joe is a ...

Everyone knows that the holidays are a great time to show your good will to man. But they’re also a great time to show your backside. From spiked eggnog to shameless re-gifting to caroling “the Lord ...

In English possessive adjectives are words such as 'my', 'your', 'his', 'her', 'our' and 'their'. Possessive adjectives come before the noun and must agree with the noun that follows them. Possessive ...

It's about time for our possessives to do a reverse Pluto. Pluto, you know, used to be a planet. Then it got demoted. This is like a word being turned into a prefix or suffix. Well, my ...

In deciding whether or not to use, and where to place, an apostrophe after a genitive (or possessive) word, I have always relied on men. That’s Since about 1900, many business firms, institutions, and ...

First, the possessive pronouns "theirs, his, hers, ours, its, yours" have no apostrophes. Second, all other possessive words do have apostrophes, as in "Joe's cat." ...