I think everybody has probably one or two grammar things that no matter how well you know grammar you always have to check.

Your versus Your.

There versus There. Your versus your there versus there versus there versus there versus there

and one of those things people have trouble with is apostrophes for example

when Ian and I send out our Christmas card does it come from the Danforth

Chilloggs with an S or an apostrophe S.

Online with us now is David Brindley. He's on the board of the American Copy Editor Society and the managing editor of National Geographic.

And now we want to warn you, we are talking about grammar, so that can get a little boring so every once in a while we're going to put in a dance break.

So David, what are we supposed to do?

Well, nine times out of 10, I would say,

draw, don't use an apostrophe at the end of your name

because you're probably just going to get it wrong

so for example my name brindly if it was if I'm talking about my car it's David

brindley's car but if you're sending a typically a family like the Brindley family

will send a card out and it will come from the Brindley's which is a plural.

So a plural is different from possessive so when you send out the

Christmas card or the holiday card it kind of it's coming from you in this case the

brindles just put the s no apostrophe.

Absolutely just S no apostrophe.

Fire at all. Now it's confusing, for example, if your last name ends in an S, let's say Jones,

J-O-N-E-S, If you want to make a plural from that, you add an E-S. So it's the Jones-S.

Typically, plurals just add, you just add an S to make a plural typically.

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