This question was closed without grading. Reason: Answer found elsewhere
Apr 1, 2010 20:10
14 yrs ago
English term

which is correct

English Art/Literary Journalism magazines
1980s book or 1980's book or 1980s' book?
Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (1): English2Korean

When entering new questions, KudoZ askers are given an opportunity* to classify the difficulty of their questions as 'easy' or 'pro'. If you feel a question marked 'easy' should actually be marked 'pro', and if you have earned more than 20 KudoZ points, you can click the "Vote PRO" button to recommend that change.

How to tell the difference between "easy" and "pro" questions:

An easy question is one that any bilingual person would be able to answer correctly. (Or in the case of monolingual questions, an easy question is one that any native speaker of the language would be able to answer correctly.)

A pro question is anything else... in other words, any question that requires knowledge or skills that are specialized (even slightly).

Another way to think of the difficulty levels is this: an easy question is one that deals with everyday conversation. A pro question is anything else.

When deciding between easy and pro, err on the side of pro. Most questions will be pro.

* Note: non-member askers are not given the option of entering 'pro' questions; the only way for their questions to be classified as 'pro' is for a ProZ.com member or members to re-classify it.

Responses

-1
4 mins

1800s

a excepción de que sea requerido el posesivo
Peer comment(s):

disagree English2Korean : "except that the possessive is required"??? I don't think so.
3 hrs
Ok if you disagree...but I put the answer in Spanish...if you make a possesive statement then it is ´s if not it is just 1800s
neutral Rachel Fell : but wrong decade and century too ;-)
1 day 22 hrs
Something went wrong...
+14
6 mins

1980s book

A 1980s book is a book about or from or of the era of the 1980s.
Peer comment(s):

agree Kim Metzger : No apostrophe required for an attributive noun (noun premodifier). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_adjunct
39 mins
Thanks
agree Ildiko Santana : Yes. The rule applied is "No apostrophe is needed between the year and the s." (The Chicago Manual of Style, 8.40)
42 mins
Thanks
agree Jack Doughty
44 mins
Thanks
agree 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!)
52 mins
Thanks
agree Jenni Lukac (X) : Stephanie has the correct answer and Mark has revealed an awful (yes, gasp) truth.
1 hr
Thanks
agree English2Korean : Certainly
3 hrs
thanks
agree David Hollywood
4 hrs
thanks
agree 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!
8 hrs
thanks
agree Marianna Tucci
8 hrs
thanks
agree 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?
11 hrs
thanks
agree Rolf Keiser
13 hrs
thanks
agree Phong Le
1 day 12 hrs
thanks
agree Rachel Fell
1 day 22 hrs
thanks
agree jccantrell
2 days 23 hrs
thanks
Something went wrong...
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search