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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2008 15:44:42 GMT
Hope someone can help with this. I am doing a CV and want to put that I Supervised the office in the managers (or manager's) absence. I am getting confused as to how the apostrophe rules should be applied in this instance.
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Post by Dr Mildr on Nov 22, 2008 16:43:27 GMT
Manager's absence. It's the absence of the manager (loosely speaking). I supervised during the manager's absence. I supervised while the manager was absent.
I good rule of thumb is - how many managers are you talking about. Here it's just one, and yet you need to write it with an s. If it's just one, the s can't be indicating a plural so it must be being used for something else. The something else is the 'possession' of the absence by the supervisor, and so you need an apostrophe.
(It's called the possessive apostrophe but clearly possession isn't always the case; it's better to consider the association between the two words.)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2008 16:48:47 GMT
Thanks :-)
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Post by Vadim on Nov 24, 2008 9:04:32 GMT
Welcome to the forum. Good luck with your Job hunt. If you need any more help, don't hesitate to ask, all here are freindly and don't bite, except maybe Tone.
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Post by Tone on Nov 24, 2008 21:16:35 GMT
>all here are freindly and don't bite, except maybe Tone<I see that the cruelty is spreading! Tone
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Post by Twoddle on Nov 24, 2008 21:50:26 GMT
>all here are freindly and don't bite, except maybe Tone<I see that the cruelty is spreading! Tone Don't take it to heart, Tone; we know you're toothless really.
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