Possession for words ending in “s” | The Apostrophe | Punctuation | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hello grammarians hello Paige hi David
so we're talking about possession for
names or words ending in the letter S so
there's some confusion I think about
what to do if you've got to make
someone's name possessive if their name
ends in an S like for example my friend
Jess if we're talking about Jess and
we're talking about something that
belongs to her like Jess's hat we know
that there should be an apostrophe in
there but should there also be an S the
answer is yes there had been some debate
over this for some time but now let me
tell you the answer is yes Jess's hat
right it seems like a lot of s is in a
row but it's it's important for
understanding what someone's trying to
say mm-hmm so the same the same thing
happens regardless it can be for words
ending in s like bus so if we've said
you know the the air conditioning on
this bus is broken we could say instead
to make that a little bit shorter the
buses air conditioning is broken right
and so we're again we're just taking all
of that information about the air
conditioning that belongs to the bus all
of that is just sort of being bundled up
into this apostrophe s and it doesn't
matter that bus already ends with an S
we're just this this works the same as
any other word we're just going to say
buses if we wanted to talk about the
chili culture of the state of Texas for
example we would say Texas's chili
culture yeah so it's exactly the same as
any other singular word even though it
ends in S you still need another s so
just and apostrophe s and if you didn't
know now you know and that's how to form
the possessive for names or words ending
an S you can learn anything Dave it out
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