Joint and Seperate Possessives
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If two or more nouns share possession, only the last noun takes the possessive ending, e.g., Atticus and Cicero’s correspondence.
If two or more nouns possess something separately, each takes its own possessive ending, e.g., Cicero’s and Albert Einstein’s correspondence.