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02-elementary-rules-of-usage

Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,

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A skill that teaches Claude Code to do enterprise communication tasks well. It is packaged knowledge the model uses whenever it is relevant.

  1. Install the skill (command above).
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Paste this command into the terminal, in your project folder, and the component installs automatically.

Content

## II. Elementary Rules Of Usage

### Rule 1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.

Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write,

Charles's friend

Burns's poems

the witch's malice

This is the usage of the United States Government Printing Office and of the Oxford University Press.

Exceptions are the possessive of ancient proper names in *-es* and *-is*, the possessive *Jesus'*, and such forms as *for conscience' sake*, *for righteousness' sake*. But such forms as *Achilles' heel*, *Moses' laws*, *Isis' temple* are commonly replaced by

the heel of Achilles

the

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