How do you pluralize or show possessive of each of these proper nouns? Also, how would you show possessive AND plural at the same time?

plural:
n(Chris)
possessive:
of Chris
plural possessive:
of n(Chris)

same for all the others.

You need apostrophes in there. Where do you put them?

“It’s Chris camper,” doesn’t work.
“There are 3 Chris in his class,” doesn’t work.
“That class is the class of 3 Chris,” doesn’t work.

@ragingloli I’m pretty sure that @Dutchess_III is asking for the possessive noun forms of these words and not just how to show the possessive relationship. So not just any genitive construction will do for the purposes of this question.

@Dutchess_III I would use the following (in plural/possessive/plural possessive order):

Chrises
Chris’
Chrises’

Mikes
Mike’s
Mikes’

Ulysseses
Ulysses’
Ulysseses’

Fuzzys
Fuzzy’s
Fuzzys’

Chris’s and Chris’ are equally correct, but I prefer the single apostrophe to the apostrophe + s construction. The important thing is to pick a rule and stick with it. And of course, things always get weird when names are involved. That’s why Fuzzy never becomes Fuzzies, even in the plural. The name Fuzzy and the adjective fuzzy aren’t the same word, after all.

Singular possessive for Chris would be Chris’s, not Chris’. Same goes for Ulysses’s.

@AstroChuck Both are considered acceptable. Or are you just saying you prefer the apostrophe +s construction?

An apostrophe after the “s” is only proper if it denotes plurality. Otherwise you would add an “s” after the apostrophe, regardless if the name ends with an “s” or not.

I’d go right down the middle on those two: Chris’s and Ulysses’—because of how I’d pronounce the possessive (“Chris-ez” and “Ulysses”).

Those two are examples from a link I shared in a previous thread…

@Dutchess_III

On your second part,

“It’s Chris’s camper.”
“There are 3 Chrises in his class.”
“That class is the class of 3 Chrises.”

“Fuzzys” is doing a number on my eyes right now, haha. My eyes really want it to be “Fuzzies,” but my brain keeps telling them to leave it the way it is.

@AstroChuck Sorry, but that is false. This is a style issue.

Sorry, no links. I am an expert, after all!~

The proper nouns mentioned will be listed as follows: Name, plural, possessive singular, possessive plural.

Chris, Chrises, Chris’, Chrises’

Mike, Mikes, Mike’s, Mikes’

Ulysses, Ulysseses, Ulysses’, Ulysseses’

Fuzzy, Fuzzys, Fuzzy’s, Fuzzys’

Thinking verbally, I’d probably refer to the Ulysseses as ”...those guys…”

@SavoirFaire kind of brought something up that I learned in college…sometimes it’s just a matter of the writer’s preference.

@SavoirFaire Sry for the Fuzzy! I knew it would be a trip to change it to a noun. :D

I stand corrected. Apparently I’ve confused the grammar for proper nouns with that of your run-of-the-mill nouns.

And to think I once taught English. Shame on me.

@SavoirFaire
I was offering generalised rules that do not require pointless exceptions and special cases.

We love you @AstroChuck!

@AstroChuck No worries. It’s a very common hypercorrection, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you were taught by someone who thought it was a fact. I certainly was, and it wasn’t until much later that I found out it’s just a style difference.

@ragingloli I’m well aware of what you were doing. Unfortunately, it’s not an answer to the question that @Dutchess_III was actually asking.

What was the question again?

@Dutchess_III Well, correct me if I’m wrong—it’s your question, after all—but I thought you were asking for the plural, possessive, and plural possessive noun forms of the words in your details.

I was.