I am confused when I learn English grammar. 1/ My bags are blue. The waitresses's bags are red. 2/ My bags are blue. The waitresses' bags are red. 3/ My bags are blue. My brothers's bags are red. 4/ My bags are blue. My brothers' bags are red. Which is mo (2024)

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“Waitresses’s” is grammatically incorrect. “Brothers’s” is grammatically incorrect. It should be “brother’s”. Which refers to one brother. Waitress + ‘s = waitress’s(Refers to one waitress) If a word is plural (brothers) for possessive, you just add the apostrophe after the “s” but you don’t add another “s” like “brothers’s”. It's brothers' and waitresses'. There's no final s. @LoDinh yes correct, some plural words end in “es” and some end in just “s”. Brothers = brother + s (Plural)Waitresses = waitress + es (Plural) Words that already end in “s” like “waitress” require “es” to make them plural.

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I am confused when I learn English grammar. 1/ My bags are blue. The waitresses's bags are red. 2/ My bags are blue. The waitresses' bags are red. 3/ My bags are blue. My brothers's bags are red. 4/ My bags are blue. My brothers' bags are red. Which is more correct, more natural? Thank you! (2)

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“Waitresses’s” is grammatically incorrect.

“The Waitress’s bags are red”
This refers to the bags of “one waitress” because the apostrophe is before the “s” at the end.
(Waitress’s)

“The Waitresses’ bags are red” this refers to the bags of “more than one waitress” (plural).
Because the apostrophe is after the “s”

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I am confused when I learn English grammar. 1/ My bags are blue. The waitresses's bags are red. 2/ My bags are blue. The waitresses' bags are red. 3/ My bags are blue. My brothers's bags are red. 4/ My bags are blue. My brothers' bags are red. Which is more correct, more natural? Thank you! (4)

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“Brothers’s” is grammatically incorrect. It should be “brother’s”. Which refers to one brother.

“ Brothers’ “ is correct and refers to more than one brother because the apostrophe is after the “s”

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I am confused when I learn English grammar. 1/ My bags are blue. The waitresses's bags are red. 2/ My bags are blue. The waitresses' bags are red. 3/ My bags are blue. My brothers's bags are red. 4/ My bags are blue. My brothers' bags are red. Which is more correct, more natural? Thank you! (11)

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Waitress + ‘s = waitress’s
(Refers to one waitress)

Waitresses + ‘ = waitresses’
(Refers to more than one waitress)

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If a word is plural (brothers) for possessive, you just add the apostrophe after the “s” but you don’t add another “s” like “brothers’s”.

If a word is singular (brother) you just add “ ‘s “ (brother’s)

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I am confused when I learn English grammar. 1/ My bags are blue. The waitresses's bags are red. 2/ My bags are blue. The waitresses' bags are red. 3/ My bags are blue. My brothers's bags are red. 4/ My bags are blue. My brothers' bags are red. Which is more correct, more natural? Thank you! (25)

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@Caleb_E If a word is plural (ending with -s/ -es) for possessive, you just add the apostrophe after the “s” AND "es"
brothers’s -> ending with -s
waitresses's -> ending with -es

Is this grammar correct???

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It's brothers' and waitresses'. There's no final s.

the brother's ball (one brother)
the brothers' ball (many brothers with one ball)
the brothers' balls (many brothers with many balls)

the waitress's bag (one waitress)
the waitresses' bag (many waitresses with one bag)
the waitresses' bags (many waitresses with many bags)

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I am confused when I learn English grammar. 1/ My bags are blue. The waitresses's bags are red. 2/ My bags are blue. The waitresses' bags are red. 3/ My bags are blue. My brothers's bags are red. 4/ My bags are blue. My brothers' bags are red. Which is more correct, more natural? Thank you! (33)

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@LoDinh yes correct, some plural words end in “es” and some end in just “s”.

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Brothers = brother + s (Plural)
Waitresses = waitress + es (Plural)

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Words that already end in “s” like “waitress” require “es” to make them plural.

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