You Don’t Need the Apostrophe-S

Why don’t you need the apostrophe-s? Because English has a category for showing possessives without it … and it’s a rather large category.

  • fairy dust
  • bear claws
  • tiger tracks
  • baby poo
  • chicken feathers
  • lettuce leaves
  • castle battlements
  • Lady Chapel
  • Loch Ness Monster
  • angel wings
  • devil horns
  • cow horns
  • deer antlers
  • child care
  • Jerusalem stone
  • Christian ethics
  • dandelion fluff
  • mustard seed
  • computer screen

… O.K., o.k., … maybe it’s only allowable when the person or entity possessing the thing is acting as an adjective describing what type of thing it is.

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