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Pat Myers's avatar

Re the possessive of "Adams": For a singular name ending in S, like Adams, you can show the possessive in either of two ways; different publications have different styles (i.e., arbitrary rules for consistency): Some publications, especially newspapers of yore, did it in the shortest way: Adams', as if it were a plural, like "books." But most have come around to adding " 's " for any singular name, even if it ends in S.

Which makes sense to me. So "Adams's vile comments."

Meanwhile, the person above who wrote " Adam's' " -- that's just a typo, right? You KNOW that you don't add an apostrophe into the middle of someone's name.

By the way, the PLURAL of Adams -- the Adams family, as it were -- is Adamses.

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Franken and Zelensky were mentioned as people who overcame comedy-related pasts to win public office, but nothing was said of Representative Fred Grandy of Iowa, TV's beloved Gopher from the classic situation comedy, The Love Boat.

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