Purdue OWL: Apostrophe

Purdue OWL: Apostrophe:

"Once you've determined whether you need to make a possessive, follow these rules to create one.

add 's to the singular form of the word (even if it ends in -s):
the owner's car
James's hat (James' hat is also acceptable. For plural, proper nouns that are possessive, use an apostrophe after the 's': "The Eggleses' presentation was good." The Eggleses are a husband and wife consultant team.)
add 's to the plural forms that do not end in -s:
the children's game
the geese's honking
add ' to the end of plural nouns that end in -s:
two cats' toys
three friends' letters
the countries' laws
add 's to the end of compound words:
my brother-in-law's money"

This site was accessed to a question I needed an answer to regarding using an apostrophe in the word "its or it's" and here is the relevant passage I found in the above linked web-source:

 It's is a contraction for "it is" and its is a possessive pronoun meaning "belonging to it." It's raining out = it is raining out. A simple way to remember this rule is the fact that you don't use an apostrophe for the possessive his or hers, so don't do it with its!)Feb 22, 2013

Being that the above title is always a link to the source of the information cited and quoted; even though it's somewhat redundant, I lately having being trying to cut and paste the raw or root URL, even if I don't quite understand if the URL is top level domain, or a sub-domain.



That being said, below is the raw or root level URL for the above info, which in this case is also a hyper link:



https://owl.english.purdue.edu

Wow: This is such a useful resource, that I am including another hyperlink to the site map of the above URL:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/sitemap/



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