I have a question on grammar in a business letter- a stupid question!?

If you are writing a business letter and the name of the company is Noahs Ark Childrens Center; do you have to make Noahs and Childrens possesive with an apostorphe S? Would it be more proper to add an apostorphe even if the company does use an apostorphe themselves, or would it be more proper to write the business name however they write it? Can someone please help me?

You should always write the company's name exactly as they do. For further proof, this is what I found on a website referenced at the end of this post:

"Business style guides, on the other hand, are unanimous in stating that the correct way to write a company鈥檚 name is the way the company itself writes it鈥攏o matter what your grammar-school teacher would say about it.

Missing apostrophe? Too bad.
Starts with a lower-case letter (think eMachines or iTunes)? Deal with it.
Leaves out the vowels (RAZR)? Too bad.
Throws us back to Shakespeare with 鈥淎mp鈥檇鈥?instead of 鈥淎mped鈥?"

Hope this helps. Good Luck!

Sherry

yes, because the apostrophe symbolize's possession

i would write it the same way the company does. if you choose to add an apostrophe, i would add it to both.

That's a toughie, but my suggestion would be to spell the company name exactly as the company does, since in so much of today's marketing companies do not always use appropriate grammar in their advertising or in the name of their company.

use their spelling - generally it is a legal name and punctuation is part of it.

It should be Noah's Ark Children's Center.

Definitely use their spelling. It's there trademark.

There is even a legal reason you want to spell the name the way the company does especially if the company does it wrong. That way nobody can say that you did not really mean this particular company.

You write the name of that company as it is written by them. If they have incorrectly omitted the possessive apostrophes, it's not for you to correct it on a business letter. You can put [sic] after it to show that it was not a spelling or grammatical error on your part. The [sic] indicates you are basically 'quoting' someone else's version of whatever. It shows you didn't write it that way, you're just relaying the information as it came to you.

Does that make sense?

(and if it were me, I would point out this glaring mistake to the powers that be in that center - how embarrassing! it's like walking around with your fly open or broccoli in your teeth or something!)