Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-24573226-20160522025838/@comment-24573226-20160522032721

Darkcloud1111 wrote: But you could also write it as James' dog because his name ends in an S. If James' sister was named Mary and she was given the dog, it would be Mary's dog. There isn't a concrete rule saying you need to add that ending S, but you can or you can't; depends on the person really. Sorry, just saw this. I guess I'm not getting alerts.

Actually you couldn't just make it James' dog, because the rule was about classic names of 2-3 more syllables, though that English Club link doesn't mention the second conditional exception.