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Old 27-Oct-2004, 13:52
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Default Possessive doubts

  • 2) Engineering Faculty of Porto’s University
    3) Electrotechnical and Computers’ Engineering
    4) Telecommunications, Electronics and Computers’ area
I wouldn't use them in any of these examples.


5) Conflicts' Evaluation and Conflicts' Resolution Strategies
6) Presentations' Structure.
7) Presentations' Preparation and Organization.
8) Audiences' management.

I wouldn't use the apostrophe here:

5) Conflict Evaluation and Conflict Resolution Strategies
6) Presentation Structure.
7) Presentation Preparation and Organization.
8) Audience management.

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Default Re: Possessive doubts

It depends on the meaning you want to express:

writers conference (OK; Adjective. What kind of conference?)
writers' conference (OK; Plural, Possessive. Whose conference?)

audience management. (OK; Adjective. What kind of management?)
audience's management. (OK; Possessive. Whose management?)
audiences' managemnt (OK; Plural, Possessive. Whose management?)

presentation structure (OK; Adjective. What kind of structure?)
presentation's structure (OK; Possessive. The structure of what?)
presentations' structure (OK; Plural, Possessive. The structure of what?)
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