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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.
2 lip 2007 · They're plurals, but when we form a possessive of them, we treat them as singular: Men's wear. Women's locker room. Children's education. It would be especially embarrassing in a school to have the apostrophe in the wrong place, so stick to your guns on this one! Posted on July 02, 2007 at 09:24 PM | Permalink. Reblog (0)
21 mar 2022 · Both “man’s” and “men’s” can be correct. Man in a singular noun. Men is a plural noun. We can say “the man’s wallet” if talking about one man. We can say “the men’s room” if talking about more than one man.
The difference between the words man and men lies in their number. Man is a singular noun that refers to one adult human male. In contrast, men is the plural form of man and is used to refer to two or more adult human males.
Men’s is the plural possessive form of men. When the noun already ends in “s” and we want to make the word possessive, we need to put the apostrophe after the “s”. In this case, the plural is irregular and “men” doesn’t end in “s” so we need to add “s” to men. Where is the men’s room?
28 wrz 2017 · The answer lies in thinking about the plural form before it becomes possessive. 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 ...
