When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, ...

Have you ever corrected someone mid-conversation because what he said just didn't sound right? What I'm talking about is words that sound like plurals and possessives but shouldn't be and vice versa.

Every year, as the holidays approach, I like to offer tips to help readers avoid embarrassing mistakes on those Christmas cards that some of us relics still like to send out. Then, every year, as the ...

As 2025 winds down, June Casagrande writes about the correct punctuation for all the holidays to come in 2026.

Before you start composing your holiday cards and invitations, here’s a cautionary tale for you. Recently, I bought an e-book that I didn’t realize was self-published. But by the time the protagonist ...

On October 22nd, at 2:50 P.M., @APStylebook tweeted a series of guidelines about how to punctuate possessives of nouns that end in “S”: “For possessives of plural nouns ending in s, add only an ...

Of all the grammar concepts we have, "plural" seems to be one of the most straightforward. You got one thing? It's singular. Got more than one thing? It's plural. But alas, language is always less ...

Possessive pronoun must agree in gender and number with the noun in the phrase they replace. Each possessive pronoun must agree in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) with ...

One of the great questions of American life comes up whenever we have a day in celebration of mothers, fathers, presidents, or veterans: Where do you stick the apostrophe? Should there even be an ...