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Old 28-Feb-2003, 18:21
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Originally Posted by Anonymous
Please tell me what looks wrong with the following sentence?

We specialize in shopper's transportation needs.

This sentence needs to refer to all shoppers of a store.
It also needs to point out that we are talking about each of the shopper's individual need.
When one is talking about more thyan one shopper, the possessive form is shoppers'.
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