Possessive of ONE FAMILY is not FAMILIES. « Grammar Glitch Central



« Civil War ancestors alive enough to contact park officials! Apostrophe epidemic continues with YOU’RE for YOUR. » Possessive of ONE FAMILY is not FAMILIES. Here is part of a "Job Wanted" ad that appeared in my local newspaper this week: Christian lady looking to clean one families home. Whoops! The epidemic of apostrophe problems continues. This lady only wants to clean ONE HOME. The HOME should belong to ONE FAMILY. The proper way to show that ONE HOME belongs to ONE FAMILY is to add an apostrophe and an S to the end of FAMILY. Changing the Y to I and adding ES makes the word refer to several FAMILIES, and I am sure the lady did not mean to suggest that this should be one HOME belonging to several FAMILIES. The sentence should read this way: Christian lady looking to clean one family's home. Tags: apostrophe This entry was posted on Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 8:13 pm and is filed under apostrophe, Grammar, plual forms. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. 2 Responses to “Possessive of ONE FAMILY is not FAMILIES.” Possessive of ONE FAMILY is not FAMILIES. « Grammar Glitch Central - christianfamiliesnetwork.com - christian families network says: January 12, 2012 at 4:41 pm [...] Article FROM http://www.grammarglitchcentral.com/2012/01/possessive-of-one-family-is-not-families/ SPONSOR- Christian Games for kids-fun and faith based curriculum GET YOUR FREE PASS [...] Kare says: January 19, 2012 at 5:25 pm i would love to see more blogs like yours… Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website