But some people said that both are acceptable. I just wonder the reason why.:-(There are five nurses' husbands at the party. :tick:
But some people said that both are acceptable. I just wonder the reason why.:-(
How about if you wanted to indicate the house jointly owned by Mr & Mrs Mills? Indicate both plurality and possession.
Grammatically speaking, the apostrophe is usually placed after s' if the noun is plural. Examples,
Plural - students' books = books for many students
Singular - student's books = books for one student
Notice: When the noun is a normal plural, with an added s, no extra s is added in the possessive; so pens' caps (where there is more than one pen) is correct rather than pens's caps.
Frequently, in AmE we do add the 's. It's optional. (Either way is OK.)And when there is a proper-noun ends in an 's', we add only an apostrophe.
E.g: Carlos' gift. but not Carlos's gift. ;-)
Bah, thats easy. I was hoping to generate confusion by asking for the plural too. The Mills' House only indicates someone called Mills and says nothing about how many Mills there are.In your case, it's Mr. and Mrs. Mills' house.