English term
which is correct
4 +14 | 1980s book | Stephanie Ezrol |
5 -1 | 1800s | José J. Martínez |
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Kim Metzger
: No apostrophe required for an attributive noun (noun premodifier). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_adjunct
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Ildiko Santana
: Yes. The rule applied is "No apostrophe is needed between the year and the s." (The Chicago Manual of Style, 8.40)
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Jack Doughty
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Mark Nathan
: yes, of course, although I always think that a "2000s book (or whatever)" and a "2010s book" sound odd, and you are better off with a completely different contruction such as the "from the second decade of the twenty-first century" (gasp!)
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Jenni Lukac (X)
: Stephanie has the correct answer and Mark has revealed an awful (yes, gasp) truth.
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English2Korean
: Certainly
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David Hollywood
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BrettMN
: This is it. Please don't put an apostrophe in there. Enough native speakers make that mistake; you don't have to join their ranks!
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Marianna Tucci
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B D Finch
: Yes, we've got no potato's! But it is a bit odd as, surely, one can easily find out the actual year of publication?
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Rolf Keiser
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Phong Le
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Rachel Fell
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jccantrell
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