According to the Internet, there’s a car dealer whose service department has a “kid’s play area,” but a competitor offers a “childrens play area.” The former makes you wonder: Who is this kid, and ...

Pluralizing a last name can seem confusing—and it gets even more confusing when you want to make a name both plural and possessive. Let’s suppose your last name is Jones, and you and your family want ...

What's the rule for making a name ending in 's' possessive, or plural possessive? NPR's David Folkenflik talks with grammarian Ellen Jovin, who's watched the confusion over the Harris-Walz ticket.

The apostrophe can be used to show who things belong to. If an item belongs to something, the apostrophe shows us who, by sitting at the end of the noun. If that noun doesn't end in s, the apostrophe ...

The apostrophe is out to get you. That innocent-looking little punctuation mark you learned about in elementary school has been plotting against you all your life. It’s not like the hyphen, which is ...