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TSI Writing: Identifying Plural vs. Possessive 14 Views
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Description:
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
Please contact the employment contractor who handles your
accounts' to take
care of this situation.
Transcript
- 00:03
All right yes i writing editors Here's Another sentence for
- 00:05
you please contact the employment contractor who handles your accounts
- 00:10
to take care of this situation Boy we'd get that
- 00:13
apostrophe thing here There's a problem Let's help the employment
- 00:18
contractor is better at solving problems that he or she
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- 00:21
is at solving grammar problems Yeah as it turns out
- 00:25
we're dealing with a straightforward apostrophe question who stuck that
- 00:28
apostrophe in there anyway since the employment contract just handles
- 00:33
accounts plural no punctuation is necessary here Your accounts so
- 00:39
it's de accounts who take who handles your accounts to
- 00:42
take care of this situation that's it The accounts in
- 00:46
question aren't possessive either plural aor singular seek and we
- 00:51
typically only adding apostrophe that plus est thing neither to
- 00:54
singular announce that ended asked like inbee so that's it
- 00:57
it's the poor schmuck and our situation His hand Whoa
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