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Special problems arise when you create possessives for names already ending in ‘s’.
The rule is a perfectly absurd concoction, which grows out of a basic confusion about parts of speech ( possessives are not adjectives, so you can't say ‘It looks John's,’ for example).
All three examples are from the very first sentences of their essays; possessives are being used to introduce discourse referents.
Prenominal possessives (John's car, my hat) normally function as definite expressions.
How do you do a possessive of a registered trademark that is itself already a possessive ?
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