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.

While walking through Delhis roads and admiring private housing one often encounters incorrect signages An imposing granite and steel houses often sport a house numbers and a nameplate display saying ...

A possessive is a word that shows possession or ownership of something. A possessive can be a noun, pronoun or adjective. Nouns are usually made possessive by adding an apostrophe and an ‘s’. For ...

I haven’t done a real Grammar Police column in months, mostly because I haven’t been presented with a sufficiently intriguing new question to address in detail. However, I have been reminded of some ...

Possessives shouldn't be difficult. In many languages, they're not. In French for example, to talk about the car belonging to Robert, you just say "the car of Robert": la voiture de Robert. Spanish ...

It's about time for our possessives to do a reverse Pluto. Pluto, you know, used to be a planet. Then it got demoted. This is like a word being turned into a prefix or suffix. Well, my ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last week we dealt with some possessive questions when there were plural possessors. Now we’ll deal with other possessives ...