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Possesive apostrophe



 
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Possesive apostrophe #1 (permalink) Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:54 am   Possesive apostrophe
 

There something about this that I'd like to learn clearly,
when and when not to use it. Here's a an example of what I'm trying to convey:

I heard a new York's police's conversation.

or

I heard a New York police's conversation.

I know there might be other situations like this but right now it just slips my mind.

Is there any rule I can observe? or anything that could be of help, I'll apreciate it. :?:
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I got it now #2 (permalink) Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:03 am   I got it now
 

Let me tell you all that I found the answer to my question:
It has to do with the attributive. It is that a noun can function as an adjective thus modifying the main noun.
When used in this way is called attributive noun and may also be a compound noun and a phrase noun. In such case, the attributive noun is traditionally hyphenated.

In the case of attributive noun phrases that include a quantifier (numbers), American usage follows an interesting rule: when the noun phrase is transform into a modifier,the noun component of the original phrase is put into singular form.
Example:the noun phrase "two cars" become the adjective "two-car," as in "two-car garage" while in British would be "two cars garage" ( at least formaly).
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