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Latest post Mon, Nov 5 2007 5:49 PM by Marius Hancu. 2 replies.
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Anonymous  +  439073 Mon, 05 Nov 07 05:21 PM

HI, If for example I want to say:

“I stuck an adhesive on the windows of the bus”. Should I say buses’ windows or bus windows?

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Grammar Geek  +  439085 Mon, 05 Nov 07 05:44 PM

I find "the windows of the bus" to be the best of them, but if you want to use bus as an adjective, "on the bus windows" that's fine too.

I don't find "buses' windows" to sound very natural.

(Note that your original sounded like only one bus, but buses' windows sounds like more than one bus.)
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Marius Hancu  +  439092 Mon, 05 Nov 07 05:49 PM
I agree with GG (but I guess both of you mean  bus's) and at Google:

590 for "bus's windows"
13,500 for "windows of the bus"
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