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Tido Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Noun Possesive's

Is the following question written correctly?

"Aldergrove and Middlefield’s devices remain unresponsive at this time."

Is has two nouns and I was not sure if each of the nouns should have a " 's " written at the end of the word.

Thanks for any help.
  

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It depends who Aldergrove and Middlefield are.

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  • It depends who Aldergrove and Middlefield are.
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It depends who Aldergrove and Middlefield are.
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tidoIs has two nouns and I was not sure if each of the nouns should have a " 's " written at the end of the word.
It depends on what you mean:

Aldergrove and Middlefield’s devices = the two people share the same devices.
Aldergrove's and Middlefield’s devices = the two people each have their own devices.
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They are names of schools, so it is a building name. Why would it matter?
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Thanks Mister Micawber, this clarify's it. Indeed I each of the schools has their own device. So I did make a small grammar error, as there is an individual device at each site.
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