Alright, I'm talking to someone in IM, and I notice something... "I'm going to my bro Cody's aunt/uncles' house" The apostrophe after "uncle", which follows an "s". Is that correct? Since I am talking about two people? Or would it be "aunt's and uncle's house"?
I would be tempted to write, "aunt and uncle's house," with the apostrophe only on the word uncle since aunt and uncle comprises a noun phrase. I am not 100% on this though as the entire construction of the sentence is a bit convoluted.
I just researched this using a university editorial style guide and the Chicago Manual of Style. Wrey, of course , is right. Since it's the house of both the aunt and uncle, you use an apostrophe on the second noun: "my aunt and uncle's house" However, if we're talking about different entities owned by the aunt and uncle, we'd need an apostrophe for each noun: "my aunt's and uncle's specific talents"
They could avoid the whole problem by just saying "relative's house." Oh, sweet sweet simplification. I guess that doesn't answer your question very well, though.
uhh... lol thanks for the help. Before the 's' was what I was after, I know, I know, the slash is bad grammar, but that's how I wrote it (shorthand ftw?) It was in a PM so I didn't really care about that... the subject had bothered me for as long as I can remember. Thanks again ^^
