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"If several people told me of their plans for the weekend, their weekends exist, if only in the idea stage. In this case, I would say, "weekends"."
In your statement above, you wrote "their weekends" referencing plural weekends because there are multiple people, each with a weekend. Why wouldn't you say "their weekend ...
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