the oxford english grammar english 1st edition

... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... disagreement. The proper aim of a usage guide is to resolve these problems, rather than describe the whole of current usage. The Oxford Guide to English Usage has this aim. Within the limits just ... Tess's Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the plural in the normal way, e.g. bosses' the octopuses' tentacles the...

... Ernest Gowers, Oxford, 1965) NEB The New English Bible (Oxford and Cambridge, 1970) ODWE The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Oxford, 1981) OED The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford, 1933) ... Tess's Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the plural in the normal way, e.g. bosses' the octopuses' tentacles the ... speeches put into the mouths of characters in novels, and hence no censure of the style of the author is implied. The aim is to illustrate the varieties of usage and to display the best, thereby making...

... Father Christmas's Thomas's To form the plural possessive, they add an apostrophe to the s of the plural in the normal way, e. g. bosses' the octopuses' tentacles the ... As the inflexion of the plural of nouns: see plural formation. B. As the inflexion of the third person singular present indicative of verbs, it requires the same changes in the stem as the ... sound followed by the sound of hard g. 1. The single sound is the only one to occur at the end of a word, e. g. in bring furlong song writing 2. The single sound also occurs in the middle of words,...