As I stated in the example in the question, would you say the "United States power", "United States' power" or "United States's power"?
2007-10-07 09:41:23 · 5 answers · asked by The Ghetto David Hume 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
United States' money; United States' power is correct. Never an 's in a case like this. The apostrophe-s is used as a contraction for the verbs is or was, and as possessive in cases like Mary Jane's mother. If the phrase ends in s--as in United States--you just use the end apostrophe.
The site www.better-english.com/possplu.htm has short exercises and worksheets to help with possessive plurals.
2007-10-07 10:00:19 · answer #1 · answered by jan51601 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
United States money.
2007-10-07 16:54:19 · answer #2 · answered by less 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
United States' money
2007-10-07 16:45:36 · answer #3 · answered by laura0129 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
United States Power ... although I would probably say "the power of the United States"
2007-10-07 16:50:00 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically it's "United States's money, but it is not incorrect to put "United States' money with just an apostrophe at the end of s. On the other hand If you put US money or US power you don't need to put any apostrophe and therefore to say or put United States Money or United States Power is also ok or acceptable. When you say US money, you refer to its monetary unit which is the US$. When you say US's money or United States' Money it refers to the wealth and amount of money US has.
2007-10-07 20:14:02 · answer #5 · answered by jsc_ny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋