Where do you put the apostrophe?

Punctuation is not my strong point but don't think you need an apostrophe?

Yep. The way to check if s' is required is to change it to the singular. "1 day's annual leave" sounds right and "1 day annual leave" sounds wrong, so logically an apostrpohe is required in plural cases too, and plural apostrophes always go after the s.

"Yep" was to OP.

one week's time
two weeks' time

Both above are correct because the time belongs to the week, ie it is possessive.  I thought it might be something like that but not sure now.  "days worth of annual leave" does that mean possessive?

Thanks Patra.

Words of wisdom from me

Learn something new every day, thanks also Patra.

I'm with Oval, don't see the need for an apostrophe.

It's a plural, not possessive so no apostrophe I would say...

"4 annual leave days" = defo no apostrophe.

"4 days' annual leave" = just feels like it needs an apostrophe imo.

I'm on the no apostrophe side.

The cook's annual leave  The leave belongs to one cook.
The cooks' annual leave.  The leave belongs to several cooks.
4 days annual leave.  The leave doesn't belong to days.

It would help if petrathe cat compared like with like..so
`one days annual leave` sounds right and
`one day`s annual leave also sounds right
  one day annual leave of course doesn't

no apostrophe needed.

There has been talk about scrapping the apostrophe altogether.

There's certainly a case for scrapping the possessive use of the apostrophe,  simply because of the confusion it causes with road names.
Like in the example above, what difference does it make?

I think rob-Dylan is correct by the way.

It's possessive by association.

He must be wrong then!

I wouldn't use an apostrophe either Ovalman , just looks a bit daft used that way imo

Rob is correct in his use of the apostrophe.

one day`s annual leave but 4 days` annual leave.

^yep.

no apostrophe for me

That contradict's your 15:55 post, lfc.

contradicts.. no apos.

It's a cracker.

1.01 landed etc.

I'm sure that wasn't intentional even for M D'H.

Looks like it was.

It was intentional. Was kinda hoping you'd be the one to jump on it, if I'm being honest!

what if you were to say ' four days of annual leave'..would the inclusion of 'of' make any difference to the apostrophe requirement?

This thread is near the top of google search.

M D'H gets the prize for time waster of the week.

I did high level English & a lot of the time was taught you could either use it or leave it & both would be correct

admittedly i was usually more focused on the teachers sexy legs though instead

He had a good set of pins did he?

I'm still in the no camp, although I'm wavering. Send a tw@t to the woman who wrote Eats, Shoots and Leaves - she has to know!

"admittedly i was usually more focused on the teachers' sexy legs though instead"

I've added the apostrophe.

Ozymandius
   
I'd say no apostrophe needed there.

No to the use of an apostrophe, not MC's English teacher's legs.

Actually it should be:

"admittedly i was usually more focused on the teacher's sexy legs though instead"

I think.

Shouldn't that be teacher's?

I'm getting confused.

agreed, Dr Crippen, so perhaps if Rob were to include the 'of', that would be a safer way to go.

More than one teacher's legs rob?

yes only one teacher had sexy legs I guess

teacher`s for one

Sorry I was a bit late with that it had already been corrected.

rob you can't even be arsed to use Capitals for your own name so stfu

Ozymandius

Yes, I think so.

small c for capitals.

capitals` ?

Proper names require starting with a capital letter.

I'm not so sure about usernames.

she was a real tease , always wore heels , stockings , boots &  loved to show them off to us while virtually making love to the blackboard

I would have thought user names, strictly speaking, should be started with capitals.

Moonbeam, I'm shocked!

I thought I knew the answer (yes, apostrophe) but then I read the cook's annual leave/cooks' annual leave post (leave belonging to the cook/cooks) and the point that the leave doesn't belong to the day/days so I think no apostrophe (basic rule with apostrophes is the it replace "his" i.e. the boy, his car; becomes the boy's car... should I be using a semicolon there?

Anyway, head hurting now ....

Please, op, just take one day at a time off - no multidays.
Or just write 4 days of annual leave.

Couldn't you just ask for your annual leave

it is a full name though , maybe even his real one ?



Yes .. so was I ... Makybe Diva

In rob_dylan's defence, he DID use capitals when he called himself UTI. Unfortunately, everyone thought he was called U.T.I. rather than the intended oochi!

How am I expected to remember all this stuff from school

I suppose you're all still fully equipped in Trigonometry too

Fk it, I'm not going on holiday this year, just getting the punctuation right in the email request is more than I can bear.

Well remembered mik.

How am I expected to remember all this stuff from school

I suppose you're all still fully equipped in Trigonometry too

I've done a couple of courses from https://www.coursera.org/courses

Trigonometry and English will be put on my todo list

Wife will ask me later what I got up to today, I'll tell her I had a long winded discussion on apostrophe's

Only on Chit Chat....

Don't do it Ovalman

Has to be the most pointless thing to ever waste months of good maths lessons on , could of been taught all about -Ev instead

Hey I like the Gripsed stuff btw , good guy evan

Are you sure you're not related to djsunset?

No , what ever happened to him , specials markets have never seen a 1k bet since

I love Maths and Science, I'm not doing these courses for the qualifications but for the betterment of myself. I've completed a Python programming course and into my 2nd Android course. I'm struggling with Android but it's my preferred format for a few ideas I have.

Pokerstaples is also decent http://www.twitch.tv/pokerstaples but it's more interesting listening to their thought process and how it compares to yours. You can even learn from the bad players that stream as you can understand why they make poor decisions. My MTT game isn't great, I've never won anything decent on Stars so it's good for me, I'm finding it really good for learning.

Good stuff
I'm too busy trying to stay afloat to learn anything worthwhile , you're lucky you've got the time to do what you want with it
Yep I know the basic Mtt strategy they'd teach somebody but you learn the most valuable things just by listening to good players chat freely like they do , it may just be one sentence they say during an entire session that hits on you !

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I always get my its and it's mixed up

Bloody hell! Do some of you still not believe me?

Look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#General_principles_for_the_possessive_apostrophe

Time, money, and similar

An apostrophe is used in time and money references, among others, in constructions such as one hour’s respite, two weeks’ holiday, a dollar’s worth, five pounds’ worth, one mile’s drive from here. This is like an ordinary possessive use. For example, one hour’s respite means a respite of one hour (exactly as the cat’s whiskers means the whiskers of the cat).

Mc Moonbeam
Please note there is no space before a comma.

Even though I was sure I was correct, Patra's reference and this:
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp

Rule 7. Amounts of time or money are sometimes used as possessive adjectives that require apostrophes.

Incorrect: three days leave
Correct: three days' leave

Incorrect: my two cents worth
Correct: my two cents' worth

says I'm wrong. (should this be a capital s?).  But it says some times not always.

It's beyond me.'

Sometimes

Looking at Patra's info from Wiki, I'm a bit surprised to see 'Time, money, and similar'. I would have thought that the comma was not required after the word 'money'. I thought that the last comma in a list was replaced by 'and'.

I put my apostrophes in between my hyperbolies and my onamatapayas

Naydam: Commas throughout a sequence in US English, no comma after the final item in British English.

That's OK, then. I didn't realise it was written in Foreign.