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Venus's vs Venuses

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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 *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

The second I think - because that's possessive (moons belonging to Venus) and the first is plural (several planets).

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
Forum Mod
over a year ago

My Own Little World

As in how many moons does Venus have?

Venus's moons is my best guess

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I would say it is Venus's as in moons belonging to Venus. HHx

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By *dwalu2Couple
over a year ago

Bristol

You can use either Venus's moons, or Venus' moons, both are correct, and the choice is diown to style.

But never Venuses!

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By *lam rockerMan
over a year ago

Tain

just say 'the moons of Venus' thereby solving the problem ...

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Definitely Venus's.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"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

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)
over a year ago


"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

Bristol


"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   
over a year ago


"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 *opping_candyWoman
over a year ago

West Yorkshire

Definitely either Venus' or Venus's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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)
over a year ago


"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)
over a year ago

Oops, is my geek showing

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It is Venus'.

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