Could you possibly tell me where the apostophe should be in...

[UnfortunatelyMe]

this please..?

He liked looking at the mens false teeth.

n's

Yes, men is already plural, so the apostrophe goes before the s.

now why is that please?
dd1 put it after the mens' because there was more than one man and that made sense to me...
I don't understand why its men's

ah right ok...gotcha now. Thanks

because men is plural. there's only one lot of men. its the false teeth of the men.

I think the confusion arises because in words that you make plural by adding an s, such as girls, you put the apostrophe after the s. But it's not to do with the word being plural, but rather how the plural is formed.

habbi that went right over my head

Argh, sorry.

I mean that you don't make the plural of man by saying mans, so adding an 's to the end of men doesn't make it difficult to say.

But with a word like girls, adding 's at the end (the girls's toys) is ugly and difficult to say, so you just say the girls' toys.

Both these words are plural, so the rule about 's isn't so much about the fact that there's more than one man or girl, but more to do with the fact that the plural is formed in different ways.

Not sure that's any clearer. I used to teach this stuff - it's as well I gave up!

will come back to lok at that when ive had a nice bath...see if i can take it in!!!

look look i mean

Men is an irregular plural (ie it is pluralised without an s)
As for example is
women
Geese
Mice
Children

In these cases the apostrophe comes after the word and before the s as if it were a singular noun
the goose's egg
AND the geese's eggs
But the duck's egg
and the ducks' eggs

That's just the way it is

And I even missed the r out of apostrophe in the title too Bows out quietly

Yeah we also had
A greedy rat stole the mices chocolate.

OK forget about the plural thing.
the question is: who is the owner? and put the apostrophe after the owner.
in this case the owner is the men (terrible grammar)

same again
to whom does the chocolate belong?
the mice
therefore, the mice's chocolate

Isn't "the mice's chocolate" a horrible phrase, though? Can't say why I don't like it, as grammatically it's fine - just - blerg.