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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Ok bright sparks Should this be:
Venuses moons
or
Venus's moons
One dictionary on line says one way and another dictionary says another.
I home school my lad so need to know.
Thank you
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You can use either Venus's moons, or Venus' moons, both are correct, and the choice is diown to style.
But never Venuses!  "
I thought the latter option would mean there were multiple venuses. But I'm more of a science girl than languages ^^ |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Thanks!
My lad wrote Venuses in his work and I marked it as wrong but then 5 minute later he came running in with a grin on his face saying I was wrong haha
I think he just looked at every online dictionary he could find till he found his spelling as right 
The thing that did throw me though is my FireFox spell check highlights Venus's as a spelling error |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Thanks!
My lad wrote Venuses in his work and I marked it as wrong but then 5 minute later he came running in with a grin on his face saying I was wrong haha
I think he just looked at every online dictionary he could find till he found his spelling as right
The thing that did throw me though is my FireFox spell check highlights Venus's as a spelling error "
If you type venuses into Google it corrects it with an apostrophe. Trust Google if not us |
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By *dwalu2Couple
over a year ago
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"You can use either Venus's moons, or Venus' moons, both are correct, and the choice is diown to style.
But never Venuses!
I thought the latter option would mean there were multiple venuses. But I'm more of a science girl than languages ^^"
That would be a different meaning entirely though...and a very odd sentence construction of such, even if it were grammatically correct. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Thanks!
My lad wrote Venuses in his work and I marked it as wrong but then 5 minute later he came running in with a grin on his face saying I was wrong haha
I think he just looked at every online dictionary he could find till he found his spelling as right
The thing that did throw me though is my FireFox spell check highlights Venus's as a spelling error
If you type venuses into Google it corrects it with an apostrophe. Trust Google if not us "
Yes, I do often use Google for spelling I must admit, Would be nice for them to make an add-on for FireFox |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It denotes moons belonging to Venus so it should be Venus's or because Venus ends in an s Venus'
Venuses would denote multiple Venuses.
Btw, Venus does' have a moon. Neither of the inner two planets have moons.
All the rest do. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It denotes moons belonging to Venus so it should be Venus's or because Venus ends in an s Venus'
Venuses would denote multiple Venuses.
Btw, Venus does' have a moon. Neither of the inner two planets have moons.
All the rest do."
It doesn't. I'm amazed no one picked up on this |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"It denotes moons belonging to Venus so it should be Venus's or because Venus ends in an s Venus'
Venuses would denote multiple Venuses.
Btw, Venus does' have a moon. Neither of the inner two planets have moons.
All the rest do."
Yeah I know it has no moons, I just used that as an example
Actual sentence was:
Venus's metallic core is roughly 2400 miles wide.... |
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