Writing for Business - A Whatis.com Blog » six month’s worth or six month’s worth http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business Is your grammar as good as your code? Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:09:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Is that six month’s, six months’ or six months worth? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/is-that-six-months-six-months-or-six-months-of-backlog/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/is-that-six-months-six-months-or-six-months-of-backlog/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:44:59 +0000 Ivy Wigmore http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/writing-for-business/?p=867 Which is correct?
The CFO suggested that the most practical solution might be to outsource the outstanding ____________ worth of backlog.
a. six month’s
b. six months’
c. six months

Answer: b.

Explanation:
This is the plural possessive form — it’s a backlog of six months’ worth — so we use the apostrophe after the s to indicate that.

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