Plural Possessive Nouns

Plural possessive nouns are those nouns which indicate that a group of people of things is in possession of the noun which follows. For example, in: "The bees' honey tasted delicious," "bees" is the plural possessive noun. As such, the apostrophe is placed at the end of the plural noun. Had the sentence been describing the honey of a single bee, it would have been written: "The bee's honey .
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