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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2011 12:22:20 GMT
For a wall of children's writing should it be Writer's Wall or Writers' Wall? The writers own the writing but as there are more than one writer should it be at the end? We have a work place dispute over this! Thank you for your help.
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Post by Twoddle on Oct 15, 2011 14:18:50 GMT
Welcome, Viv1483.
It's the wall of the writers, so it's the writers' wall.
It's not a matter of who owns the writing, but of who's using the wall, and the wall's being used (or "possessed") by more than one writer.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2011 9:45:06 GMT
Thank you for that Twoddle!
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Post by Tone on Oct 17, 2011 20:28:00 GMT
It could also be adjectival as: "Writers Wall" with no apostrophe.
And:
>We have a work place dispute over this! <
May I suggest "workplace" without the space.
Tone
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Post by Twoddle on Oct 18, 2011 10:28:13 GMT
It could also be adjectival as: "Writers Wall" with no apostrophe. I don't like it, Tone: it looks wrong and I think it is wrong. Just because we see the occasional example of adjectival nouns, it doesn't mean they're universally acceptable. |
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Post by Tone on Oct 18, 2011 13:45:20 GMT
>it doesn't mean they're universally acceptable. <Hmm ... That'll be "they're universal's acceptable", then?  Tone
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