Mice is plural form of mouse. It is an animate noun. I wonder what possessive does it have in the plural? Should we write:
1)
mice's behavior
2)
mice' behavior
or how?
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Sign up to join this communityMice is plural form of mouse. It is an animate noun. I wonder what possessive does it have in the plural? Should we write:
1)
mice's behavior
2)
mice' behavior
or how?
I know it's confusing, but we just use 's.
Irregular Plurals
Some nouns have irregular plural forms without s (man → men). To show possession, we usually add 's to the plural form of these nouns:
singular noun plural noun my child's dog my children's dog the man's work the men's work the mouse's cage the mice's cage a person's clothes people's clothes
(English Club)
The issue of whether to use 's or just ' only occurs when the word ends in an s (e.g., the collars of many dogs, the dogs' collars).
I don't think there is often a problem when the possessive is an irregular plural like above.