Assertion: apostrophe | /r/HasProperty | needed
Facets:
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
value: really
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: If there are two or more people owning something, an apostrophe is needed to show plural possession.
text: A number of institutions, such as Harrods department store and Barclays bank, have decided that the apostrophes that long were part of their names are no longer necessary.
text: This is because Jacob and Elsy is a cohesive noun and hence one apostrophe is needed.
text: An apostrophe is needed to show the plural (i.e., three different offices, not three doctors in a single office).
text: No apostrophe is needed as this is simply the plural form of M.D., not a plural possessive.
text: An apostrophe is needed with
text: "Yours" is a possessive pronoun; no apostrophe is needed.
text: The apostrophe is still needed when there is a contraction:
text: There is some debate and ambiguity over whether, if the possessor is a singular noun that happens to end in an -s, an apostrophe should simply be added to the end, or whether an apostrophe and an additional 's' is needed.
text: If the noun after "of" is a building, an object, or a piece of furniture, then no apostrophe is needed!
text: Possessive pronouns already show possession, and no apostrophe is needed.
text: To determine whether an apostrophe is needed, ask these two questions.
text: The apostrophe is needed here to show plural possessive.
text: The apostrophe is needed here to show plural possessive.
text: So no apostrophe is needed.
text: The most obvious specific issue here concerns forms such as girls hats ('hats for girls'); the idea is that as the word girls is attributive here no apostrophe is needed.
text: No apostrophe is needed.
text: Apostrophes are no longer necessary when forming the plurals of letters and numerals, unless there’s a doubt of the meaning without an apostrophe.
text: The apostrophe can be used for this if it is really necessary, but mostly it isn't.
text: Now that we no longer pronounce most –ed endings, the apostrophe isn’t necessary.