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In 'Homeland Bank client' and 'California traffic law', both nouns are much better as adjectives. Although we know that the genitive has other uses, I would still save possessive for ownership as much as possible. The bank does not own its clients and California does not own its laws. Why...

Guest, Where is your confusion? In response to which option is appropriate, I believe you can use whichever one you like best. i) CraftNet: The Graphic Professionals' Resource Network ii) CraftNet: The Graphic Professional's Resource Network That one is the possessive of the plural...

Perhaps one of you sent me this, or perhaps I have subscribed to this service and forgotten the fact, but at any rate the following serendipitiously arrived in my mailbox this morning: Possessive vs. Attributive Nouns ************************************************* If you enjoy this writing...

"The United Nations will participate IN the normalisation of the situation." "We expect the participation OF the United Nations IN the normalisation of the situation." You are right. Both the verb (participate) and the noun (participation) are followed by IN, as in the examples above. You...

1. Plural nouns not ending in 's' take both the apostrophe and the 's': "The children's toys." "The men's cars." 2. Nouns that take -s for the plural add only the apostrophe to indicate possession (this is called 'zero genitive'): "The boys' toys." "The dogs' tails." 3. The 'zero form' is also...

No apostrophes anywhere! All the forms you mentioned are nominative-plural forms and no forms of the genitive case.

Hi, Bews’, James’ Smiths’… The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar possessive (n. & adj.) (A word or case) indicating possession or ownership. The possessive case of nouns is also called the GENITIVE case, e.g. boy's, boys', Mary's, the Smiths'. Pronouns in the possessive case are the series...

varisty team. Here 'varsity' is used as an adjective since it describes the team. What type of team is it? a VARSITY team. What is a 'bayous'? Here Louisiana is a noun used with the genitive ( 's ). The apostrophe S is used to show that something belongs to something else.

I'd say it's "two years' time" as mentioned above. The problem is that English loses its s-Genitive more and more, today, it's commonly confined to the usage with beings or in fixed expressions, otherwise it's replaced by an of-phrase. So you would say "three cups of sugar" instead of "three...

Businesses is correct. It is the plural of Business. The apostrophe is used to show that something belongs to something else (It's called the Genitive case). Normally (though not always) the apostrophe or apostrophe + s are followed by a noun. e.g. The dog's bones = the bones that the dog...