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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Old folk / folk's home

Can I say,

A group of pupils visited the old folk / folk's home last week with their teachers.
  

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A group of pupils visited the old folk's home last week with their teachers.

  • A group of pupils visited the old folk's home last week with their teachers.
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A group of pupils visited the old folk's home last week with their teachers.
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The S is always there, but not necessarily the apostrophe.
You will frequently see it written this way: old folks home.
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YankeeThe S is always there, but not necessarily the apostrophe.
You will frequently see it written this way: old folks home.


Similarly, I think one can opt out of the apostrophe with something like "we went to the NY Yankees game last weekend".

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