These
endings have always troubled me until I finally decided to get it
right. Compare the versions and pick out the correct usages in this
name ending with the letter s.
The Joneses came for dinner.
The Jones’s came for dinner.
The Jones came for dinner.
John Joneses car stalled.
John Jones car stalled.
John Jones’s car stalled.
That Jones’s girl.
That Joneses girl.
That Jones girl.
The correct sentences are:
The Joneses came for dinner.
John Jones’s car stalled.
That Jones girl.
Some tips:
When a name ends with an s, and
when speaking of the family as a group, add es,
as in Joneses.
When speaking about something
John Jones owned, it is his property and, therefore, an apostrophe
and s shows ownership, as in Jones’s.
When speaking about a person in
the singular, use only the name Jones.
However, when speaking about a
group of girls all named Jones, you would write that sentence: The
Jones girls. Notice
that the name stays the same but the s
is added to the word girl,
stating more than one exists with that name.
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