Editing United States Attorney General (section)

== Name ==
The title Attorney General is an example of a noun (''attorney'') followed by a [[postpositive adjective]] (''general'').<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Herz |first=Michael |date=2002 |title=Washington, Patton, Schwarzkopf and ... Ashcroft? |url=https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/concomm/771 |journal=Constitutional Commentary |access-date=May 31, 2019 |archive-date=May 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531193854/https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/concomm/771/ |url-status=live }}</ref> "General" is a description of the type of attorney, not a title or rank in itself ([[General officer|as it would be in the military]]).<ref name=":1" /> Even though the attorney general (and the similarly titled [[Solicitor General of the United States|solicitor general]]) is occasionally referred to as "General" or "General [last name]" by senior government officials, this is considered incorrect in standard [[American English]] usage.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Garner |first=Bryan A. |title=LawProse Lesson #116: What's the plural form of attorney general? And what is the plural possessive? |url=https://abovethelaw.com/career-files/lawprose-lesson-116-whats-the-plural-form-of-attorney-general-and-what-is-the-plural-possessive/ |access-date=May 31, 2019 |website=Above the Law |date=May 2013 |language=en-US}}</ref> For the same reason, the correct American English plural form is "attorneys general" rather than "attorney generals".<ref name=":2" />