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Jimmy the Squid:
Guys I'm writing a psychology report for my Assessment and Intervention class, can you remind me whether I should be using "clients" or "client's" when I want it to be a possessive? I tried to get onto meebo but that is not happening on the uni computers.
tania:
if you're referring to multiple clients, it's clients' with the apostrophe at the end. if it's singular, then client's.
Method of Madness:
Possessives only lack apostrophes when they are pronouns (and pronouns never have them). There may be exceptions to this, but I can't think of any.
Joseph:
I'm supposed to be submitting the paper that contains the results of my research from this semester on Friday, but I haven't done any of the analyses or even a halfway decent literature review. I've requested an extension due to Circumstances, and though my supervisor and the research course coordinator were both cool with it, they need to talk to each other to make it happen and though I've even drafted a note for my supervisor to send making the extension request I haven't heard anything back and it's really worrying because I need need need an extra two weeks to do this. And this is assuming that I can actually manage to focus enough to be halfway productive with those couple weeks, because I've basically survived the last two only by ignoring my schoolwork almost entirely (well, this is an exaggeration; I've spent tons of time trying to do schoolwork, but I just end up staring at things for hours on end without much in the way of comprehension happening) and spending far too much money on books and food and far too much time hanging out with friends instead.
Whatever though, I achieved my one real remaining goal as a student. I have all the books out of the school library right now that they let you have out at once: 80!
calenlass:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Apr 2011, 23:00 ---Possessives only lack apostrophes when they are pronouns (and pronouns never have them). There may be exceptions to this, but I can't think of any.
--- End quote ---
You must be thinking of the elusive "me's".
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