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I'm not sure if it's been fully added in the options available to pick for the answer - didn't have an apostrophe when I did this today :(
Same for me it is March 1 2019 and mine still doesn't have Dimas' ball is white
An apostrophe without a following "s" is added to indicate possession only when the noun itself ends in "s" AND is plural -- like "the cows' owner." Since "Dimas" is singular, the plural form would be "Dimas's."
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Up until now, it would not have occurred to me to use -s's where a possessive is involved in respect of a noun ending in -s. That applies to personal names too. However, you made me look up the rules and found that Fowler's Modern English Usage states: Use 's for the possessive case in English names and surnames, including those which end in s, thus -s,s. Examples: Charles's, St James's Square etc. It is customary to omit the 's when the last syllable of the name is pronounced as /iz/ as in Bridges', Moses' etc. There are a host of rules pertaining to the use of an apostrophe but this forum does not lend itself to studying English to the nth degree as, after all, we are here to learn the Indonesian language
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So how would you say 'Dimas' white ball'? 'Bola putih Dimas'? But wouldn't that mean 'a white ball is Dimas''?
Can someone explain how multiple adjectives work, and how to tell whether there is an implied copula or not?
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The 's is needed even if Dimas's name ends in --s. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/apostrophe#apostrophes_showing_possession
This is solved in Esperanto exercises by adding an element to the word bank that shows "--'s".
That element needs to be added to the Word Bank here too.
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The 's is needed even if Dimas's name ends in --s. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/apostrophe#apostrophes_showing_possession
That is Oxforddictionaries' opinion on what is really a matter of style, not a grammatical law from on high. It is perfectly acceptable to take the opposing position that names ending in '-s' should simply take an apostrophe and no final 's'. Both of these practices have had long and widespread use. The English language has no governing body to rule that one is wrong and one is right (as much as Oxforddictionaries might like to pretend to do so).
The guideline I like to follow is that I use apostrophe-s after s if the letter before the s is a vowel, otherwise I just use an apostrophe. I don't think this is an official rule anywhere, I just picked it up from a former English teacher and it's the way that makes the most sense to me.
"The ball of Dimas is white" should be accepted. "Someone's thing" is the same as "The thing of Someone", it's basic and general English, the exact same meaning, and then don't have to think about Dimas or Dimas' , it's clear... Please add it to the accepted translations!
This needs an apostrophe. The 'correct' answer is not correct in English.
There's no apostrophe signifying possession available in the English translation for this exercise.
