I recently had the opportunity to attend a fantastic crash course in grammar
(provided by McLuhan & Davies if anyone is looking for interesting workshops to
take).
Anyway, we discussed apostrophes and the standard convention is to eliminate
the additional s when the pronoun ends with an s.
Lucas' and Lucas's are both correct but the former is the North American
standard and the latter is the UK standard.
(Luca's implies the person's name is Luca).
So everyone is right!
Ceausu@yorku.ca on December 7, 2004 at 11:15 PM -0500 wrote:
>I just want to post a friendly reminder as to the correct way of forming the
>possessive of a person's name: Lucas is ONE person, so the possessive
>is "Lucas's" -- as in "Lucas's arguments" -- not "Lucas' arguments" which
>implies that there is more than one "Luca" and that they all have arguments.
>
>Take care,
>Andreea.
Aaron Kilpatrick
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
The Business School - Lakeshore H215
Tel (416) 675-6622 ext. 3246
Fax (416) 252-7573
aaron.kilpatrick@humber.ca
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