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# Right and wrong
Q. Who owns the apples? A. Tesco.

Therefore, stricly speaking they are Tesco's apples rather than say Marks and Spencer's apples. Tesco can not be pluralised as it is not an artical, but Tesco can own acticals so 's is correct.

Should you need to talk about the make up of the Tesco business, such as more than one Tesco store, the 's is dropped - eg. 3 Tesco stores, 8 Tesco wearhouses, the Tesco delivery van.

However, if you were to write or talk about all the apples Tesco own, then the 's is droped as then you would be talk about the stock of apples held by Tesco hence they then form part of the make up of the Tesco business and 's would be incorrect.

Kiss my bum for easter Cadbury Creme eggs.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 17:34, archived)
# "wearhouses"....
oops.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 18:35, archived)
# Yes.
It's a plural. It should be "wearhice"
(, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 5:36, archived)
# Wearhice?
That just sounds like the queen trying to say it now...
(, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 9:12, archived)
# I love it when someone makes
a clear point, then when they make the most minute mistake
making that point. EVERYONE POINTS IT OUT.
hahaha great.
(, Tue 5 Jan 2010, 21:00, archived)
# ?
Don't talk in caps, it's shouting and it's rude!
(, Wed 6 Jan 2010, 9:17, archived)
# It's not shouting...
..it's just emphasis. There are just some cunts who choose to think it is shouting.
(, Thu 7 Jan 2010, 4:24, archived)
# ^THIS!^
I was shouging the letter I the rest was rude
(, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 0:53, archived)
# no no n On the cheap side of the Atlantic
we can drop jst the s an keep teh '.
So's the 's of um plurals is
(, Fri 8 Jan 2010, 7:48, archived)