POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : It's a riddle : Re: It's a riddle Server Time
11 Oct 2024 05:19:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: It's a riddle  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 8 Feb 2008 15:27:40
Message: <47acbb3c$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:53:34 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Except the notice doesn't belong to the week. It's "four weeks notice"
> and "one week notice".   At least in my experience.

Oddly, possessiveness is the usage here, but there isn't a possession in 
use.  But the rules of grammar that I've read say that it's still written 
as a possessive singular or plural (depending on the number of weeks 
involved).

Jim


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