Writing for Business - A Whatis.com Blog » plurals and possessives http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business Is your grammar as good as your code? Thu, 23 May 2013 20:41:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Plurals and possessives http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/plurals-and-possessives/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/plurals-and-possessives/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:11:32 +0000 Ivy Wigmore http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/?p=393 typing Which is correct?
According to your contract, you’re required to give _________ notice.
a. two weeks
b. two week’s
c. two weeks’

Answer: c
Two weeks is plural and two weeks’ notice is another way of saying a notice of two weeks, so the apostrophe is used to express possession.

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