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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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is it 180 days' notice?
I think the correct phrase is "180 days' notice" but am I right? Why should it be a possessive "days'" instead on simply "days?"
days' or days?
days' or days?
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I think the correct phrase is "180 days' notice" but am I right? " days' or days? According to the Essential Guide to Good Usage, the apostrophe is used after the s in phrases like the following involving expressions of time, which are treated as possessives.
- I think the correct phrase is "180 days' notice" but am I right?
- " days' or days?
- According to the Essential Guide to Good Usage, the apostrophe is used after the s in phrases like the following involving expressions of time, which are treated as possessives.
- two weeks' time, a five days' journey, two months' holiday
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I think the correct phrase is "180 days' notice" but am I right? Why should it be a possessive "days'" instead on simply "days?"
days' or days?
According to the Essential Guide to Good Usage, the apostrophe is used after the s in phrases like the following involving expressions of time, which are treated as possessives.
two weeks' tim
days' or days?
According to the Essential Guide to Good Usage, the apostrophe is used after the s in phrases like the following involving expressions of time, which are treated as possessives.
two weeks' tim
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