Madam Medusa

no it should still be are...because she was referring to two people...

MM, xx

Eva

Struggling with your 'lecher' on Arabian Sunglasses were they??
(I thought I was quite savvy but the UD is something else-won't ask how you became an authoritarian on it Sexpat.I'll stick with Roget's tks)

Madam Medusa

but marks and spencers a single thing, ie a company, so that would be ok...("where is marks and spencers"), but you wouldn't say, "where is the two guys"...

MM, xx

Eva

Yes agreed it's singular, I was just doodling

x

Madam Medusa

and i'm just being anal, ignore, lol...

MM, xx

Grace O Malley

your fav henry was being anal at CDG airport yesterday.

Season 3 is not good doll, real let down so far!

Eva

Help with this one....confuses me all the time....where does the apostrophe go on ....i'e' say a school announcement .... groups of children's parents or groups of childrens' parents??

Anally yours

Madam Medusa

oh i really enjoyed it...!

MM, xx

Grace O Malley

really, am just not into it at all, mind you have only watched a few

Madam Medusa

the former, i'd say...cos it's groups of parents of children...but what do i know...

MM, xx

Eva

Oh you got plenty of credible brain cells under all that wild hair girl,anways sounds right to me so the former it is.

Big Kevin

I'd say the the former since school children would be considered as a single group of children. So the apostrophe s is a substitution for parents of the children, not of the childrens. It would need to be that for the apostrophe to go at the end I think.

Eva

Can you do it at idiot level for me please......or tell me the rule or give me an example of where 'childrens' is appropo.
I know I know......life me get one

Madam Medusa

i don't think you can have childrens' can you...because children is a singular word for one group, eg the toys of the children = the children's toys...

MM, xx

Big Kevin

The wiki explanation isn't bad, although a bit lengthy...

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Apostrophes

I don't think there would be a relevant usage of childrens' as I don't think childrens is a word. The only relevant use I think would be similar to your example, or as in children's rights etc.