Re: User's, Users, Users'

["David O'Brien" <obriend -at- mincom -dot- com>]

would you write "Most engineer's agree..."?

Probably not, because they never would, but you get my point.  :-)

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Goober" <techcommgoober -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 05:19
Subject: Re: User's, Users, Users'


> 
> > Look at this sentence fragment: "Most SMEs
> > agree...."  To me that looks 
> > wrong.  I think it should be: "Most SME's agree...."
> > But that doesn't seem 
> > right either as it looks like a singular possessive
> > and that does not match 
> > with "agree." And "Most SMEs' agree...." is clearly
> > wrong because it is a 
> > plural possessive, not an indication of a
> > contraction as the apostrophe is 
> > external to where the letters are left out.
> > 
> > Suggestions?
> 



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