Pereiras book or Pereira’s book

[Nakamura]

Hello dear I am again

About two months ago I registered in this forum and posted one message. I got no reply and I thought my post was a dead one which no one can see. Recently, (day befor yesterday) I got a news letter from Torsten Daerr which was amazed me very much. (May be that is a common one but I felt that it was directly written to me) so I understood that I am in the right place now for learning English.
In whichever the way I received that message I must pay my heartiest gratitude to all of you behind the work.

There are many forums and I am afraid whether I am doing wrong writing this here. I want to be familiar with the forum to do everything properly. So forgive me until little while.

I am posting my first question here.
Let say I want to explain about a book which is belong to Mr. pereira.
Which one is the correct.

1. Pereiras book
2. Pereira’s book

I think the first one is correct. But I saw more often people writing the second way. English as a very open language has the second one become accepted now or is that very wrong.

Sincerely

Nakamura

[Alan]

Hi Nakamura,

It is usual to indicate possession with apostrophe 's'. 'Pereira’s book' simply says that the book belongs to Pereira or it is his book.

Alan
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[Nakamura]

Dear Alen

Thank you so much for your reply.

When I read “Technical Writing and Professional Communication for Nonnative Speakers of English by Thomas N. Huckin and Leslie A.Olsen, I came a cross that the use of apostrophe 's' to indicate the possessions is not correct. I cannot find it now as the book has 750 pages. But I remember this very much as I was very impressive seen that.

According to that book I feel I need to use Pereiras book. But generally people use Pereira’s book. When I do PowerPoint presentation on my subject matter I doubt what to do. I am not clinging on this. But this kind of small thing made me confuse when I want to learn the most correct applications of English.

If I use
1.) The instruments manual says that…….(according to the book this is correct) but majority will think I am wrong.

2.) The instrument’s manual says that……..(according to the above book this means The instrument is manual says that) accordingly there is no meaning therefore this is not correct. But if I use this way the ones who know the most correct application (I don’t know but according to the book) may think I am not correct.

3.) The manual of the instrument says that….(most of time I used this way to avoid the situation)

However English as a very open language if some application become very common it becomes the standard and correct application. From this forum I want to know which one is the most correct according to the origin and which one would be the most appropriate to use according to the present situvation.

I appreciate very much for more views on this.

Hope I will find the page soon and write it here for all.

I am not too serious on these particular types. I think you all may find many grammatical mistakes I have done while above my writings. I need to learn more how to avoid such mistake rather than the above matters.

Sincerely

Nakamura

[Nakamura]

I found the paragraph it is in the 498 page of the book. I am afraid to write it as it is here because I will be caught by the copyright law.

But for the betterment of all our learners I will write what is the meaning of it.

According to the author he says that meny writers have trouble with homophones i.e words that have similar pronunciation but different in the way of writing and the meaning. They say probably the most frequently missed homophones in English are its and it’s.

They ask are you sure which is which?

And answer: its is a possessive form: it’s =it is

They further mentioned that your computer spell checker will not help you to act accordingly.


Sincerely

Nakamura