Last week in this column we talked about some difficult possessives. This week, Bill in Williamsport, Pa., builds on that discussion with a question about a possessive issue we didn’t cover: “Joe is a ...

In English possessive adjectives are words such as 'my', 'your', 'his', 'her', 'our' and 'their'. Possessive adjectives come before the noun and must agree with the noun that follows them. Possessive ...

First, the possessive pronouns "theirs, his, hers, ours, its, yours" have no apostrophes. Second, all other possessive words do have apostrophes, as in "Joe's cat." ...