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1.1 Contraction
1.2 See also
1.3 Usage notes

1.3.1 Rule of thumb

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Possessive marker, indicating than an object belongs to the noun or noun phrase bearing the marker.

The cat bit the dog's tail and ran.

The cat bit the dog with the shaggy fur's tail and ran.

Contraction of is.
The dog's running after me!
Contraction of has.
The dog's been chasing the mail carrier again.
(informal) Contraction of does.
What's he do for a living?

See also

its, it's

Usage notes

Usage of the possessive marker with words ending in s varies. The final s is dropped after regular plurals.
- the dog's tail but the dogs' tails.

and may or may not be dropped after words ending in s, depending on one's pronunciation (see the rule of thumb below)

St. James's or St. James'

Irregular plurals with endings other than s always take 's.

the children's voices

Possessives can generally be recast using of the, and this may be advisable if the contraction seems awkward or ambiguous (which is often the case in speech).

the tails of the dogs.

Traditionally, the possessive of the biblical name Jesus is written without a final s.

Jesus' disciples

This may or may not apply to the Spanish given name Jesus.
- This is Jesus Ramirez, and this is Jesus's wife.

Rule of thumb

An excellent rule of thumb for determining whether to add 's or an apostrophe alone is the following: If you add an s to the noun when pronouncing the possessive, add 's when writing the possessive; otherwise add only an apostrophe. Examples:
- the possessive of dog is pronounced dogs, so it is written as dog's;
- the possessive of dogs is pronounced the same way, so it is written dogs' ;
- the possessive of James can be pronounced either Jameses or James, so write James's or James' according to your pronunciation;
- the possessive of Joneses (meaning the people making up the Jones family) is pronounced Joneses, so it is written Joneses' .

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