Friday, September 20, 2013

grammatical number - Using apostrophes with plural and possession



We have something going to print today, but everyone in the office is arguing as to where to correctly place the apostrophe in the sentence (if at all!)



The sentence is:





Bring your event into the palm of your guests hand



Answer



Assuming you're referring to a single "guest", the possessive apostrophe should come before the s:




Bring your event into the palm of your guest's hand.





But I have a suspicion that guests was meant to be plural (because of the context). In that case, you should pluralize palm, hand and guest, and put the apostrophe after the last s in guests:




Bring your event into the palms of your guests' hands.



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