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“children's novels” is correct. Could you try to explain why it sounds wrong to you? “Children” is the plural of “child” and so its possessive is formed by addi
by tricolon 12y ago
“children's novels” is correct. Could you try to explain why it sounds wrong to you? “Children” is the plural of “child” and so its possessive is formed by adding “'s”.
- karambahh 12y agoI think my reasoning goes that in french, a trailing s denotes a plural much more regularly than in english (or so it seems to me, I have no way to measure this in a serious way). I know the grammar rule that says that "James's bicycle" is not correct, "James' bicycle" is (and I seem to remember that the only reason is that a double s cannot be pronounced) Combine these two facts and you've got "no s as possessive at the end of a plural" rule that formed in my tired mind :-)