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26 lip 2020 · While you're in school you can spell it men's (also women's, children's, oxen's, sheep's, deer's) with just plain old Apostrophe-S. You can't tell the singular from the plural possessive in speech, so there's no reason to do it in writing, either.
Mans/Men. We use men when we want to make the word “man” plural. So it is: I need one man. I need two men. Mans is incorrect and should not be used as the plural for man. Man’s is the singular possessive form of man. We use the possessive form of man when we want to show that one man owns something. This is a man’s bag.
25 kwi 2013 · Mens is sometimes used as an alternative for, you guessed it, men's. It looks invalid because it's a possessive which should have an apostrophe before the "s" but as it's caught on, it's just considered acceptable now.
2 lip 2007 · The apostrophe-s and s-apostrophe indicate possession, whether singular or plural, and when the plural itself in an archaic one like "men" and "women," we treat the plural noun as if it were singular.
5 sie 2020 · The short answer is: "men's" is correct. Let's look at a few different examples to see why. First, let's look at a word for which you add an "-s" to make it plural. "One dog" changes to "two dogs." If we wanted to say that a bone belonged to a single dog, we would say: "The bone is the dog's."
28 wrz 2017 · The plural of man is men, so the possessive follows the normal rule of adding an apostrophe + s to form men’s room. The plural of lady is ladies, so the possessive follows the normal rule of adding only the apostrophe to a plural word ending in ‑s, which gives us ladies’ room (scroll down for the complete list of rules).
