How Do You Make Your Last Name Plural on a Holiday Card?
Happy holidays from the Jones’s! Or is it the Jones’? Or the Jones? There are specific guidelines to using the apostrophe punctuation mark, yet it still stumps the most diligent grammar students from time to time. The main purposes of the apostrophe are: 1) to show possession, 2) to omit letters
or numbers, and 3) to pluralize singular letters or numbers. We’ll address the correct ways to use apostrophes in other editions, but this time of year brings one of the most egregious misuses of the punctuation mark: names and signing holiday cards. The only reason apostrophes are added to nouns...
