if you just tell a student "to create a possessive, add 's" it's much more simple.
In which case you add just a "'"
I'm just guessing on why it changed but the usual reason for thigns like this from what I've seen are that teachers try to keep rules simple.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Grammar Nazis should really enjoy this!
- 25/08/2010 06:55:22 PM
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Re: Grammar Nazis should really enjoy this!
- 25/08/2010 07:44:41 PM
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I'd like it more if it wasn't archaic. 
- 25/08/2010 07:57:28 PM
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- 25/08/2010 07:57:28 PM
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Isn't that covered with the "then do this" suggestion?
- 25/08/2010 08:17:38 PM
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The 90's one?
- 25/08/2010 09:00:48 PM
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I just didn't know if you meant the one in 90's (see commentary) or the one in '90s.
- 25/08/2010 09:08:27 PM
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You're right. Reading that again, I did find it confusing.
- 25/08/2010 09:14:36 PM
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Wait a minute, "s's" is acceptable? Charles's really?
- 25/08/2010 08:24:20 PM
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... of course? *NM*
- 25/08/2010 08:55:00 PM
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Yes.
- 25/08/2010 09:03:09 PM
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It seems...wrong to me. Tacky. I will slap anyone that uses it 
*NM*
- 25/08/2010 09:05:31 PM
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*NM*
- 25/08/2010 09:05:31 PM
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it's acceptable
- 25/08/2010 09:09:02 PM
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Re: it's acceptable
- 25/08/2010 09:18:50 PM
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? but teaching NO s's is an extra detail
- 25/08/2010 09:23:12 PM
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Except when it is a plural
- 25/08/2010 09:35:46 PM
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