This is the mailbox of the Smith’s House would be correct.
Home of the Smith’s would be incorrect. i agree.
Perhaps the owner is a blacksmith, in which case the spelling would be correct.
Technically and grammatically, yes.
But I have my serious doubts that anybody who puts The Smith’s on their mailbox is saying “Hey, this mailbox belongs to the Smith family.” Instead, they are saying “Hey, this is where the Smith family lives.” And that’s why it’s wrong.
@Smapti not many blacksmiths in the neighborhood these days!
they are not saying this where Smiths family live they are saying this is where the Smith family lives and this is our house and this is our mailbox.
Because it should be Two Cousins’ Beauty Supply
ok i was wrong on that one, but i still maintain the the Smith’s mailbox is ok
Ref the posts just above, I’m not piling on; this just happened to be when I got to this thread.
The issue here is that Kroger was once a small company named for its founder. When they had a couple of stores, calling them Kroger’s stores might not have been wrong although it may not have been the legal name of his business.
When they’re a giant corporation ($120+B in annual sales, not quite one half million employees), calling it “Kroger’s” is about as silly as calling General Motors “GM’s”. Yes, every GM factory belongs to GM and every Kroger food processing plant and store belongs to Kroger.
It would be appropriate to say
That store over there belongs to the Kroger Company. It is Kroger’s store. But the name of the store is “Kroger”.
I want to throw numbers into the mix. “1970’s” makes me want to ask “1970’s what?”
It drives me buggy but it is still quite common to see 90’s, instead of '90s. The second one is correct when referring to years.
what store am i going to? Kroger’s store, which has a big sign on it saying Kroger. the store the Kroger corporation owns.
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Unless you would refer to the Smith family as “the Smith”, their mailbox is not “the Smith’s mailbox”. It is either “the Smith family’s mailbox” or “the Smiths’ mailbox”.
(It would be perfectly acceptable just to right “Smith” on the malbox, in much the way that you might see “Kroger” written on one of Kroger’s stores.)
All of the family are named Smith. They are not named Smiths.
And Kroger is the name of the store, which you acknowledge is owned by Kroger’s.
That’s why it’s the Smith family, not the Smiths family.
But note that it’s the Smith family; it’s not the Smith. Which is why their mailbox is the Smith family’s mailbox; not the Smith’s mailbox.
The members of the Smith family can collectively be referred to as the Smiths. And, it follows, the mailbox they share can be called the Smiths’ mailbox.
But “the Smith’s mailbox” means “the mailbox of the Smith”. And, unless you are talking about a mailbox belonging to an individual who is a smith by occupation, and are not too particular about capitalisation, that has to be wrong.
I am going to Bob house. I am going to Bob’s house
I am going to Kroger. I am going to Kroger’s.
No. Kroger is the name of the corporation. A store belonging to Kroger is “Kroger’s store”, which can colloquially be shortened to “Kroger’s”.
hence it is not incorrectly pluralized or apostrophed to say or write “i am going to Kroger’s”
I agree. “Kroger’s”, to refer to a store, is fine. “The Smith’s mailbox” is not.
I’m surprised nobody has said LEGO yet.