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four books' long
The Apologos of Odysseus, four books' long, is...
Please do not dismiss this usage out of hand.
And yet it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.
What follows the genitive should be a noun of some ...
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four books' long
Sven Yargs commented:
The article may look respectable to the unpracticed eye, but it shows multiple signs of having reached publication without the benefit of professional copyediting. Moreover, any ...
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There is a brand of ale in the United Kingdom called Farmers Ale, with no apostrophe on farmers. Is this correct?
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (Revised by R. Burchfield 1998) has the following extract in its section on apostrophes:
Relinquishment of the apostrophe
Since about 1900, many business firms, ...
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There is a brand of ale in the United Kingdom called Farmers Ale, with no apostrophe on farmers. Is this correct?
The construction normally uses an apostrophe as in the following two examples.
Green Book Standards
If Soldiers’ duties prevent them from conducting PRT during these hours, commanders will establish ...
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There is a brand of ale in the United Kingdom called Farmers Ale, with no apostrophe on farmers. Is this correct?
Trade names have no grammar rules. You can call a product or business whatever you want and you can punctuate or spell the name however you wish.
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