{"id":682,"date":"2009-10-22T10:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:51:00","slug":"apostrophes-with-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/apostrophes\/apostrophes-with-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostrophes with Names Ending in <em>y<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question: <\/strong>How do you form the plural of a proper noun that ends in <em>y<\/em> like Murphy? Should you change the name to Murphies as in I visited the Murphies yesterday?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Answer: <\/strong>No. Never change the spelling of a name to show the plural form.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Example: <\/strong>I visited the Murphys yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question: <\/strong>How do you show possession for a name that ends in <em>y<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Answer: <\/strong>To show singular possession, use the apostrophe and then the <em>s<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Example:<\/strong> I petted Mrs. Murphy\u2019s cat.<\/p>\n<p>To show plural possession, always make the noun plural first, then use the apostrophe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Example:<\/strong> I petted the Murphys\u2019 cat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Example: <\/strong>I visited the Murphys\u2019 store on Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>More information on apostrophes with names can be found in our post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/apostrophes\/apostrophes-with-names-ending-in-s-ch-or-z\/\">Apostrophes with Names Ending in <em>s<\/em>, <em>ch<\/em>, or <em>z<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How do you form the plural of a proper noun that ends in y like Murphy? Should you change the name to Murphies as in I visited the Murphies yesterday? Answer: No. Never change the spelling of a name to show the plural form. Example: I visited the Murphys yesterday. Question: How do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostrophes"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}