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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Apostrophe

If we are talking about one friend, do we say

One of my parents' friend...

OR

One of my parent's friend...?

Thanks
  

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Two parents; one friend: one of my parents' friends CJ

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Two parents; one friend:

one of my parents' friends

CJ
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Wouldn't you say

The groups' friend though?

Why do we use the plural friends in the original?
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English 1b3Why do we use the plural friends in the original?
Because it makes no sense to say one of onething. If you say "one of X", you mean one out of the group of all X's. You don't, for example, choose one cake out of a 'group' of one cake, nor choose one person out of a 'group' of one person.
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CalifJim Wouldn't you say
The groups' friend
You could, if the several groups together had one friend.
You could not prefix this by "one of", however. Then you would again have one friend chosen out of a set of one friend.

Sorry, I do not quite understand. Are you saying this is incorrect?: (I hate how you can't use both a colon and question
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English 1b3Sorry, I do not quite understand. Are you saying this is incorrect?...
One of the groups' friend.
OR
One of the group's friend.
Yes. I'm saying this is incorrect.

One of the ... must be followed by a plural.

8 3 63 2 0 10 76 4

One of the numbers above is greater than 65.
= One n
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Took me an age, but I finally got it. Ta
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